Quran glossary · draft

بَاخِعٌ نَفْسَكَ

destroy

The participle depicts the addressed messenger as consuming himself through grief over unbelief.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: بخع

Lemmas: باخع

Forms: بَٰخِعٌ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

18:6

فَلَعَلَّكَ بَٰخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِمْ إِن لَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَسَفًا

26:3

لَعَلَّكَ بَٰخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُوا۟ مُؤْمِنِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; both are frozen targets, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Quran 18:6 and 26:3 use the same active participle with نَفْسَكَ as object in parallel warnings about the addressees' refusal to believe; 18:6 explicitly names grief. The participial predicate, second-person possessor, object, and causal clauses compose locally. No aligned reading payload, Quran-internal counterexample, or unresolved issue is present.