Quran glossary · draft

مَسْبُوق

outstripped

The passive participle presents an agent as one another could get ahead of, under explicit negation in both occurrences.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: سبق

Lemmas: مسبوق

Forms: مَسْبُوقِينَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

56:60

نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

70:41

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 37 family occurrences were reviewed on one page, with no protected segments or compacted candidates. Quran 15:5 and 23:43 anchor temporal precedence against an appointed term; 12:25 anchors two participants racing to a door; 21:27 negates speaking ahead of God; and 36:40 negates night getting ahead of day. The same earlier-position core covers prior words, peoples, deeds, movement, escape, and ordered cycles. The exact target is partitioned by finite, reciprocal, participial, passive, and event morphology, with no witness-sensitive context or unresolved challenge.