Quran glossary · draft

هَزَمُوهُمْ · مَهْزُومٌ · سَيُهْزَمُ

decisive defeat

To defeat an opposing collective so decisively that its force is broken.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: هزم

Lemmas: هزم · مهزوم

Forms: هَزَمُ · مَهْزُومٌ · يُهْزَمُ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

2:251

فَهَزَمُوهُم بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُۥدُ جَالُوتَ وَءَاتَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُلْكَ وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُۥ مِمَّا يَشَآءُ وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّفَسَدَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

38:11

جُندٌ مَّا هُنَالِكَ مَهْزُومٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَحْزَابِ

54:45

سَيُهْزَمُ ٱلْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّونَ ٱلدُّبُرَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences. At 2:251 an opposing host is actively defeated, while 38:11 and 54:45 describe a gathered force as defeated in participial and finite passive constructions. All occurrences converge on the breaking of a collective opponent in conflict. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.