إِن يَنصُرْكُمُ ٱللَّهُ فَلَا غَالِبَ لَكُمْ وَإِن يَخْذُلْكُمْ فَمَن ذَا ٱلَّذِى يَنصُرُكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
خذل
forsake
To withdraw needed support so the dependent party is left powerless.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: خذل
Lemmas: يخذل · مخذول · خذول
Forms: يَخْذُلْ · مَّخْذُولًا · خَذُولًا
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
لَّا تَجْعَلْ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ فَتَقْعُدَ مَذْمُومًا مَّخْذُولًا
لَّقَدْ أَضَلَّنِى عَنِ ٱلذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَآءَنِى وَكَانَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ خَذُولًا
Why this meaning was chosen
All three occurrences were inspected on one bounded page. The verb contrasts withheld support with victory-giving support, the passive participle describes the resulting unsupported person, and the intensive adjective characterizes Satan as repeatedly abandoning humanity. Voice and intensity are compositional.