Quran glossary · draft

الكفر

deny

To deny acknowledged truth or respond without due acknowledgment.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: كفر

Lemmas: كوافر · أكفر

Forms: كَوَافِرِ · أَكْفَرَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

60:10

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا جَآءَكُمُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتُ مُهَٰجِرَٰتٍ فَٱمْتَحِنُوهُنَّ ٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِإِيمَٰنِهِنَّ فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ مُؤْمِنَٰتٍ فَلَا تَرْجِعُوهُنَّ إِلَى ٱلْكُفَّارِ لَا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ لَهُنَّ وَءَاتُوهُم مَّآ أَنفَقُوا۟ وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَن تَنكِحُوهُنَّ إِذَآ ءَاتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ وَلَا تُمْسِكُوا۟ بِعِصَمِ ٱلْكَوَافِرِ وَسْـَٔلُوا۟ مَآ أَنفَقْتُمْ وَلْيَسْـَٔلُوا۟ مَآ أَنفَقُوا۟ ذَٰلِكُمْ حُكْمُ ٱللَّهِ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

80:17

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 525 occurrences were reviewed across six required pages while every accepted meaning remained untouched. The feminine plural and intensive exclamation extend the protected denial analysis. كافور at 76:5 is instead a drink admixture and is isolated as an exact lexical collision.