فَسَاهَمَ فَكَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُدْحَضِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
سهم
draw lots
To participate in a selection decided by lots.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: سهم
Lemmas: ساهم
Forms: سَاهَمَ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
lose
37:141
فَسَاهَمَ فَكَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُدْحَضِينَ
Alternative: he lost and became one of the defeated
Research rendering: he drew lots and became one of the defeated
The second predicate independently supplies the losing result; the target must denote the reciprocal selection in which that result arose.