وَلَمَّا رَجَعَ مُوسَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ غَضْبَٰنَ أَسِفًا قَالَ بِئْسَمَا خَلَفْتُمُونِى مِنۢ بَعْدِىٓ أَعَجِلْتُمْ أَمْرَ رَبِّكُمْ وَأَلْقَى ٱلْأَلْوَاحَ وَأَخَذَ بِرَأْسِ أَخِيهِ يَجُرُّهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ ٱبْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱسْتَضْعَفُونِى وَكَادُوا۟ يَقْتُلُونَنِى فَلَا تُشْمِتْ بِىَ ٱلْأَعْدَآءَ وَلَا تَجْعَلْنِى مَعَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
ٱسْتَضْعَفَ
render powerless
To cause another to remain without effective power.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: ضعف
Lemmas: استضعف
Forms: ٱسْتَضْعَفُ · يَسْتَضْعِفُ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ عَلَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهْلَهَا شِيَعًا يَسْتَضْعِفُ طَآئِفَةً مِّنْهُمْ يُذَبِّحُ أَبْنَآءَهُمْ وَيَسْتَحْىِۦ نِسَآءَهُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Tentative Quran-internal core tested across all 52 family occurrences. Surah 30:54 directly alternates ضعف, قوة, and ضعف, anchoring lack of strength; Shubah vocalizes the weakness noun with a while the other aligned witnesses use u without changing that contrast. Form X profiles causing or treating another as powerless. The 22 multiplicative occurrences run in the opposite semantic direction: 2:261 expands one seed into seven hundred and 2:245 couples the verb with many multiples. They therefore receive exact lexical-collision branches rather than being forced into the weakness core. Bazzi and Qunbul use Form II in key multiplication contexts where other witnesses use Form III, with no change to the multiplication rendering. The collision and the Form X bridge remain explicit user-review questions.