إِنِّى تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ رَبِّى وَرَبِّكُم مَّا مِن دَآبَّةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ ءَاخِذٌۢ بِنَاصِيَتِهَآ إِنَّ رَبِّى عَلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
Quran glossary · draft
نصي
forelock
The forepart of the head at the hairline, especially as a point of seizure and control.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4
Roots: نصي
Lemmas: ناصية · نواصي
Forms: نَاصِيَتِ · نَّوَٰصِى · نَّاصِيَةِ · نَاصِيَةٍ
Occurrence examples (4 of 4)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.
يُعْرَفُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ بِسِيمَٰهُمْ فَيُؤْخَذُ بِٱلنَّوَٰصِى وَٱلْأَقْدَامِ
كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ
نَاصِيَةٍ كَٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ
Why this meaning was chosen
All four occurrences were inspected together. Each denotes the same head-part, whether singular or plural; describing a forelock as lying and sinful attributes its person's conduct to the point by which that person is threatened with seizure.