Quran glossary · draft

الإِمْهَال

grant respite

To defer action against someone and allow a limited interval before consequence.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: مهل

Lemmas: مهل · أمهل

Forms: مَهِّلْ · مَهِّلِ · أَمْهِلْ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

73:11

وَذَرْنِى وَٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ أُو۟لِى ٱلنَّعْمَةِ وَمَهِّلْهُمْ قَلِيلًا

86:17

فَمَهِّلِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًۢا

86:17

فَمَهِّلِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًۢا

Why this meaning was chosen

All six occurrences were reviewed. The form II and IV imperatives grant a brief delay to rejecters. The noun مُهْل instead denotes a burning molten substance and contradicts that temporal core, so its three occurrences are isolated as an exact lexical collision.