Quran glossary · draft

شَطَطًا

grave overreach

A statement that grossly exceeds the bounds of truth.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: شطط

Lemmas: شطط

Forms: شَطَطًا

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

18:14

وَرَبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ إِذْ قَامُوا۟ فَقَالُوا۟ رَبُّنَا رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ لَن نَّدْعُوَا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ إِلَٰهًا لَّقَدْ قُلْنَآ إِذًا شَطَطًا

72:4

وَأَنَّهُۥ كَانَ يَقُولُ سَفِيهُنَا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ شَطَطًا

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences. The noun at 18:14 and 72:4 characterizes speech about God that grossly exceeds truth. Form IV at 38:22 prohibits a judge from exceeding just bounds and is paired with judging by truth and guiding to the path's midpoint. Speech and judgment therefore share one forceful boundary-overreach core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.