Quran glossary · draft

وَبِيل

severe

Severe and crushing in its punitive force.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: وبل

Lemmas: وبيل

Forms: وَبِيلًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

73:16

فَعَصَىٰ فِرْعَوْنُ ٱلرَّسُولَ فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ أَخْذًا وَبِيلًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All eight occurrences were reviewed. وَابِل is heavy rain, وَبَال is the grievous consequence of an act, and وَبِيل describes a severe seizure; the three branches retain burdensome intensity.