Quran glossary · draft

مُتَّبَع

pursued

The Form VIII passive participle describes a group that another party will follow in pursuit.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: تبع

Lemmas: متبع

Forms: مُّتَّبَعُونَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

26:52

وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنْ أَسْرِ بِعِبَادِىٓ إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ

44:23

فَأَسْرِ بِعِبَادِى لَيْلًا إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 172 family occurrences were reviewed across two pages. The protected perfect Form I draft remains untouched. Quran 2:166 explicitly contrasts followed leaders with followers, while path, pursuit, adherence, consequence, attendance, and consecutive-time contexts preserve one following core. Every canonical, branch, and rule rendering is singular.