Quran glossary · draft

الاسْتِنْقَاذ

retrieve

To recover an object from the grasp or possession of what took it.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نقذ

Lemmas: يستنقذ

Forms: يَسْتَنقِذُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

22:73

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ضُرِبَ مَثَلٌ فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟ لَهُۥٓ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ لَن يَخْلُقُوا۟ ذُبَابًا وَلَوِ ٱجْتَمَعُوا۟ لَهُۥ وَإِن يَسْلُبْهُمُ ٱلذُّبَابُ شَيْـًٔا لَّا يَسْتَنقِذُوهُ مِنْهُ ضَعُفَ ٱلطَّالِبُ وَٱلْمَطْلُوبُ

Why this meaning was chosen

All five occurrences were reviewed. Form IV rescues a person from fire, drowning, or harm; form X attempts to retrieve an object taken away. Both express extraction from an adverse hold.