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.

37:141

فَسَاهَمَ فَكَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُدْحَضِينَ

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.