Quran glossary · draft

بِمَا كَسَبَ رَهِينٌ

held liable

Bound to answer for what one has acquired through action.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: رهن

Lemmas: رهين · رهينة

Forms: رَهِينٌ · رَهِينَةٌ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

52:21

وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَٱتَّبَعَتْهُمْ ذُرِّيَّتُهُم بِإِيمَٰنٍ أَلْحَقْنَا بِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَمَآ أَلَتْنَٰهُم مِّنْ عَمَلِهِم مِّن شَىْءٍ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَ رَهِينٌ

74:38

كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences. The plural noun at 2:283 denotes possessions physically taken and held in a debt setting. The masculine and feminine predicates at 52:21 and 74:38 apply the same holding relation to a person or soul in connection with what each has earned. The objects and grounds differ, but all three constructions bind a held party to a claim. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. No protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.