Quran glossary · draft

وَتَرَ

deed-linked deprivation

An agent causes a participant to suffer shortfall in the effective value associated with that participant's deeds.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: وتر

Lemmas: يتر

Forms: يَتِرَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

47:35

فَلَا تَهِنُوا۟ وَتَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّلْمِ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْأَعْلَوْنَ وَٱللَّهُ مَعَكُمْ وَلَن يَتِرَكُمْ أَعْمَٰلَكُمْ

Where other meanings fail

single

47:35

فَلَا تَهِنُوا۟ وَتَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّلْمِ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْأَعْلَوْنَ وَٱللَّهُ مَعَكُمْ وَلَن يَتِرَكُمْ أَعْمَٰلَكُمْ

Alternative: God will never make you single your deeds

Research rendering: God will never deprive you of the value of your deeds

The verb's affected-participant and deed complement require deprivation/diminution, not numerical singularity.

erase deeds

47:35

فَلَا تَهِنُوا۟ وَتَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّلْمِ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْأَعْلَوْنَ وَٱللَّهُ مَعَكُمْ وَلَن يَتِرَكُمْ أَعْمَٰلَكُمْ

Alternative: God will never erase the historical occurrence of your deeds

Research rendering: God will never deprive you of the value of your deeds

The assurance protects the addressees from shortfall in relation to their deeds; historical deletion is not stated.