فَلَمَّآ ءَاسَفُونَا ٱنتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
ءَاسَفُوا
provoke displeasure
The form IV verb causatively denotes bringing about intense displeasure that leads to vengeance.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: أسف
Lemmas: آسف
Forms: ءَاسَفُ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
All five family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Two circumstantial descriptors present Moses returning both angry and deeply distressed; two nouns present Jacob's grief for Joseph and the messenger's potentially self-consuming grief over disbelief. The form IV perfect causatively presents Pharaoh's people as provoking divine displeasure before vengeance. Nominal state, circumstantial case, causative derivation, tense, person, and number compose locally. Grief and anger are contextual emotional directions of the same intense distress, not Quran-internal contradictions. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.