Quran glossary · draft

تَبَوَّأَ مَكَانًا

occupy a place

To take and occupy a place for oneself.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4

Roots: بوأ

Lemmas: يتبوأ

Forms: تَبَوَّءَ · يَتَبَوَّأُ · نَتَبَوَّأُ · تَبَوَّ

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

10:87

وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰ وَأَخِيهِ أَن تَبَوَّءَا لِقَوْمِكُمَا بِمِصْرَ بُيُوتًا وَٱجْعَلُوا۟ بُيُوتَكُمْ قِبْلَةً وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

12:56

وَكَذَٰلِكَ مَكَّنَّا لِيُوسُفَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يَتَبَوَّأُ مِنْهَا حَيْثُ يَشَآءُ نُصِيبُ بِرَحْمَتِنَا مَن نَّشَآءُ وَلَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ

39:74

وَقَالُوا۟ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِى صَدَقَنَا وَعْدَهُۥ وَأَوْرَثَنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ نَتَبَوَّأُ مِنَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ حَيْثُ نَشَآءُ فَنِعْمَ أَجْرُ ٱلْعَٰمِلِينَ

59:9

وَٱلَّذِينَ تَبَوَّءُو ٱلدَّارَ وَٱلْإِيمَٰنَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ يُحِبُّونَ مَنْ هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِمْ وَلَا يَجِدُونَ فِى صُدُورِهِمْ حَاجَةً مِّمَّآ أُوتُوا۟ وَيُؤْثِرُونَ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَلَوْ كَانَ بِهِمْ خَصَاصَةٌ وَمَن يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِهِۦ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal comparison inspected all 17 family occurrences while editing only the 14 assigned targets. Form I profiles returning into a settled liability bearing wrath or sin; Form II assigns people to battle positions, land, dwellings, the House site, or reward; its passive participle names an established dwelling; Form V profiles taking an available place. The coordinated abode-and-faith construction at 59:9 remains reviewable. The three protected باءوا بغضب segments owned by MH-frontier-bau-returned were not edited, and no exact target set forces a lexical collision.