Quran glossary · draft

أَلَتْنَاهُم

diminish

To reduce a person's credited share by removing some of what belongs to it.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ألت

Lemmas: ألت

Forms: أَلَتْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

52:21

وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَٱتَّبَعَتْهُمْ ذُرِّيَّتُهُم بِإِيمَٰنٍ أَلْحَقْنَا بِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَمَآ أَلَتْنَٰهُم مِّنْ عَمَلِهِم مِّن شَىْءٍ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَ رَهِينٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of Form I أَلَتْ at 52:21. After faithful descendants are joined to believing families, God says He has not diminished them in anything from their deeds, while each person remains bound to what he earned. The negation, partitive anything, deed account, and earning statement establish reduction of credited recompense. The target is first-person plural perfect with an object pronoun, but person and aspect do not change the lexical core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.