Quran glossary · draft

ثبر

ruin

Irreversible ruin that leaves its target doomed and is invoked as an end to torment.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 5

Roots: ثبر

Lemmas: ثبور · مثبور

Forms: ثُبُورًا · مَثْبُورًا

Occurrence examples (5 of 5)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 5.

17:102

قَالَ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَآ أَنزَلَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ إِلَّا رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ بَصَآئِرَ وَإِنِّى لَأَظُنُّكَ يَٰفِرْعَوْنُ مَثْبُورًا

25:13

وَإِذَآ أُلْقُوا۟ مِنْهَا مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا مُّقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا۟ هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًا

25:14

لَّا تَدْعُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ثُبُورًا وَٰحِدًا وَٱدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًا كَثِيرًا

25:14

لَّا تَدْعُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ثُبُورًا وَٰحِدًا وَٱدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًا كَثِيرًا

84:11

فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All five occurrences were inspected together. Moses describes Pharaoh with the passive-result participle, while punished people call for the corresponding ruin when confined in Fire. Participle and event noun compositionally express recipient state and invoked outcome.