Quran glossary · draft

ٱللَّمَم

minor lapses

Lesser moral lapses distinguished from major sins and grave indecencies.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: لمم

Lemmas: لمم

Forms: لَّمَمَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

53:32

ٱلَّذِينَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبَٰٓئِرَ ٱلْإِثْمِ وَٱلْفَوَٰحِشَ إِلَّا ٱللَّمَمَ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ وَٰسِعُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ إِذْ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِذْ أَنتُمْ أَجِنَّةٌ فِى بُطُونِ أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ فَلَا تُزَكُّوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱتَّقَىٰٓ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both family occurrences were reviewed on one page. The protected occurrence carrying the accepted rendering ‘did not’ was left untouched. The assigned noun ٱللَّمَمَ instead denotes lesser moral lapses, which is an exact collision with that protected negating meaning.