Quran glossary · draft

خَوَّان

habitual betrayer

A person strongly characterized by repeated trust violation.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: خون

Lemmas: خوان

Forms: خَوَّانًا · خَوَّانٍ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

4:107

وَلَا تُجَٰدِلْ عَنِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَخْتَانُونَ أَنفُسَهُمْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ مَن كَانَ خَوَّانًا أَثِيمًا

22:38

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُدَٰفِعُ عَنِ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ خَوَّانٍ كَفُورٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal core tested across all 16 family occurrences and targets. Form I violates loyalty owed to Allah, the messenger, entrusted deposits, another person, or a spouse. Form VIII directs that breach back against the acting selves. The verbal noun names the breach, خائن profiles its agents, and intensive خَوَّان profiles a repeated betrayer. The feminine خائنة is contextualized separately at 5:13 and 40:19 because its precise act-versus-agent scope is not fixed by morphology alone. No protected meaning, audit candidate, or exact lexical collision was present.