Quran glossary · draft

دَابِر

last remnant

The terminal noun identifies the final portion left behind at a people's end.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4

Roots: دبر

Lemmas: دابر

Forms: دَابِرَ · دَابِرُ

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

6:45

فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ وَٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

7:72

فَأَنجَيْنَٰهُ وَٱلَّذِينَ مَعَهُۥ بِرَحْمَةٍ مِّنَّا وَقَطَعْنَا دَابِرَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُؤْمِنِينَ

8:7

وَإِذْ يَعِدُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ إِحْدَى ٱلطَّآئِفَتَيْنِ أَنَّهَا لَكُمْ وَتَوَدُّونَ أَنَّ غَيْرَ ذَاتِ ٱلشَّوْكَةِ تَكُونُ لَكُمْ وَيُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ أَن يُحِقَّ ٱلْحَقَّ بِكَلِمَٰتِهِۦ وَيَقْطَعَ دَابِرَ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ

15:66

وَقَضَيْنَآ إِلَيْهِ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْأَمْرَ أَنَّ دَابِرَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ مَقْطُوعٌ مُّصْبِحِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 44 family occurrences were reviewed on one page. Quran 12:25-28 anchors the physical rear through a shirt torn from behind; 15:65 uses plural backs for following a departing group; 6:45 and its parallels cut off the final remnant; 10:3 and 32:5 direct an affair through its ordered course; and 4:82 reflects beyond a text's surface to test its consequences. The aligned witnesses at 74:33 divide between Form IV أَدْبَرَ and Form I دَبَرَ, but both make the night recede, so the morphology varies without a semantic challenge. All 44 targets are partitioned by construction and derived form.