عَذْب

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: عذب

Lemmas: عذب

Forms: عَذْبٌ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

Why this meaning was chosen

All 373 family occurrences were reviewed across four bounded pages. The 371 non-target records are protected by the existing hypotheses MH-adhab-punishment-noun, MH-adhdhaba-punish-form-ii, MH-muadhdhab-punished-passive, and MH-muadhdhib-punisher-active and remain untouched. Those records consistently realize the punishment core as noun, Form-II verb, passive participle, or active participle. The only two frozen targets are the adjective عَذْب applied to one of two bodies of water; both verses contrast it with water that is salty and bitter. Case, indefiniteness, predication, and the paired-water contrast compose locally. Quran-internal substitution fails exactly: palatable fresh water is contrasted with salty bitter water and cannot denote imposed suffering, while punishment cannot serve as the positive taste quality of that water. The two targets therefore form a lexical-collision branch. No compacted candidates, aligned reading payload, or unresolved issue remains.