إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا
Quran glossary · draft
هَلُوع reactive-disposition adjective
restlessly self-protective
Disposed to react urgently in self-protection as circumstances change.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: هلع
Lemmas: هلوع
Forms: هَلُوعًا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
calmly generous
70:19
إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا
Alternative: the human was created calmly generous
Research rendering: the human was created restlessly self-protective
The alternative reverses both immediate Quranic manifestations: alarm when harm reaches the person and withholding when good reaches the person.