Quran glossary · draft

سَبَب

means

The noun denotes an available means connecting an agent to a goal.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 7

Roots: سبب

Lemmas: سبب

Forms: سَبَبًا · أَسْبَٰبَ · أَسْبَٰبِ

Occurrence examples (7 of 7)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 7.

18:84

إِنَّا مَكَّنَّا لَهُۥ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُ مِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ سَبَبًا

18:85

فَأَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا

18:89

ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا

18:92

ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا

38:10

أَمْ لَهُم مُّلْكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فَلْيَرْتَقُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَسْبَٰبِ

40:36

وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَٰهَٰمَٰنُ ٱبْنِ لِى صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّىٓ أَبْلُغُ ٱلْأَسْبَٰبَ

40:37

أَسْبَٰبَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ فَأَطَّلِعَ إِلَىٰٓ إِلَٰهِ مُوسَىٰ وَإِنِّى لَأَظُنُّهُۥ كَٰذِبًا وَكَذَٰلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِفِرْعَوْنَ سُوٓءُ عَمَلِهِۦ وَصُدَّ عَنِ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَمَا كَيْدُ فِرْعَوْنَ إِلَّا فِى تَبَابٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 11 family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Nine سَبَب nouns instantiate connection as severed relations, a supplied or followed means, upward means, or a physical cord. The two Form-I سَبَّ verbs in Quran 6:108 are an exact lexical collision: they denote reciprocal verbal reviling of invoked beings and God, an action whose hostility and object syntax cannot express a route, relation, or connecting instrument. Number, case, definiteness, governing preposition, construct relation, motion verb, physical extension and cutting, tense, person, number, mood, prohibition, and result clause compose locally. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.