Quran glossary · draft

أَثَام

offense-requital

A result noun for the requital encountered on account of culpable offense.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: أثم

Lemmas: أثام

Forms: أَثَامًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

25:68

وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلَّتِى حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All 48 family occurrences were reviewed across three bounded pages. The compacted noun-only proposal was reconciled with the whole root family: Quran 6:120 links earning the offense with recompense, 2:283 applies the active participle to a heart that conceals testimony, and 68:12 places the intensive descriptor among repeated traits. The two Form II verbal nouns occur beside idle speech in 52:23 and 56:25; all seven aligned witnesses preserve the same lexical form and construction. The result noun أَثَام in 25:68 is provisionally rendered as the encountered requital of offense because 25:69 immediately describes doubled punishment; that localized question is retained for user review rather than promoted to an accepted distinction.