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.

3:160

إِن يَنصُرْكُمُ ٱللَّهُ فَلَا غَالِبَ لَكُمْ وَإِن يَخْذُلْكُمْ فَمَن ذَا ٱلَّذِى يَنصُرُكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ

17:22

لَّا تَجْعَلْ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ فَتَقْعُدَ مَذْمُومًا مَّخْذُولًا

25:29

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.