Quran glossary · draft

تبتل إلى

devote oneself wholly

Direct oneself undividedly toward a selected recipient, excluding competing attachments from the profiled commitment.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 2

Roots: بتل

Lemmas: تبتل · تبتيل

Forms: تَبَتَّلْ · تَبْتِيلًا

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

73:8

وَٱذْكُرِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ وَتَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا

73:8

وَٱذْكُرِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ وَتَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا

Where other meanings fail

physical departure

73:8

وَٱذْكُرِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ وَتَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا

Alternative: depart physically to Him, a complete departure

Research rendering: devote yourself wholly to Him, with complete devotion

The clause supplies God as commitment endpoint and a degree-reinforcing event noun, but no path or place that would sustain locomotion.

devote another

73:8

وَٱذْكُرِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ وَتَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا

Alternative: devote another to Him with complete devotion

Research rendering: devote yourself wholly to Him, with complete devotion

Form V makes the commanded addressee the self-directed participant; no second devoted object is licensed.