Quran glossary · draft

غزو

fighters on expedition

People who have gone out on a military expedition.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: غزو

Lemmas: غزى

Forms: غُزًّى

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

3:156

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَكُونُوا۟ كَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَقَالُوا۟ لِإِخْوَٰنِهِمْ إِذَا ضَرَبُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ أَوْ كَانُوا۟ غُزًّى لَّوْ كَانُوا۟ عِندَنَا مَا مَاتُوا۟ وَمَا قُتِلُوا۟ لِيَجْعَلَ ٱللَّهُ ذَٰلِكَ حَسْرَةً فِى قُلُوبِهِمْ وَٱللَّهُ يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole plural noun is the second of two away-from-home situations, after traveling through the land. The following counterfactual contrasts death and being killed, constraining this group to participants in a fighting expedition.