Quran glossary · draft

شوك

military might

The formidable armed capability possessed by a fighting group.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: شوك

Lemmas: شوكة

Forms: شَّوْكَةِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

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

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole target is the genitive noun in غَيْرَ ذَاتِ ٱلشَّوْكَةِ, distinguishing one of two groups promised to the believers. Their preference for the group lacking this quality, followed by the passage's language of battle and defeating the disbelievers, fixes the contextual value as armed power.