قُلِ ٱدْعُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ أَوِ ٱدْعُوا۟ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنَ أَيًّا مَّا تَدْعُوا۟ فَلَهُ ٱلْأَسْمَآءُ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ وَلَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ وَلَا تُخَافِتْ بِهَا وَٱبْتَغِ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ سَبِيلًا
Quran glossary · draft
خفت
quiet speech
Speech deliberately kept below open public audibility.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: خفت
Lemmas: يتخافت · تخافت
Forms: يَتَخَٰفَتُ · تُخَافِتْ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِن لَّبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا عَشْرًا
فَٱنطَلَقُوا۟ وَهُمْ يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
In 17:110 Form III is set against public loudness and is negated as the opposite extreme in prayer. Form VI distributes the quiet speech among a group, yielding a reciprocal exchange under concealment. Voice level and reciprocal morphology account for the contextual renderings without a semantic split.