مَا كَانَ إِبْرَٰهِيمُ يَهُودِيًّا وَلَا نَصْرَانِيًّا وَلَٰكِن كَانَ حَنِيفًا مُّسْلِمًا وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
يَهُودِيّ
Jewish
The relational adjective characterizes an individual as belonging to the Jewish community.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: هود
Lemmas: يهود
Forms: يَهُودِيًّا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
turn back
3:67
مَا كَانَ إِبْرَٰهِيمُ يَهُودِيًّا وَلَا نَصْرَانِيًّا وَلَٰكِن كَانَ حَنِيفًا مُّسْلِمًا وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ
Alternative: turn back
Research rendering: Jewish
Substitution fails here: turn back would impose the first unit's predicate on a segment whose frozen form and Quran-internal construction require Jewish. This is the concrete contradiction supporting the lexeme partition.