قَالَتْ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِى بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ أَكُ بَغِيًّا
Quran glossary · draft
بَغِيّ
sexually unchaste woman
A woman characterized by sexual conduct outside the chastity boundary established by the surrounding statements.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: بغي
Lemmas: بغي
Forms: بَغِيًّا
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
يَٰٓأُخْتَ هَٰرُونَ مَا كَانَ أَبُوكِ ٱمْرَأَ سَوْءٍ وَمَا كَانَتْ أُمُّكِ بَغِيًّا
Where other meanings fail
overreach
19:20
قَالَتْ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِى بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ أَكُ بَغِيًّا
Alternative: I was not an overreach.
Research rendering: I was not a sexually unchaste woman.
The segment is a person-predicate immediately paired with Mary's statement that no human touched her, so the action-noun rendering proposed for بَغْي fails here.
overreach
19:28
يَٰٓأُخْتَ هَٰرُونَ مَا كَانَ أَبُوكِ ٱمْرَأَ سَوْءٍ وَمَا كَانَتْ أُمُّكِ بَغِيًّا
Alternative: Your mother was not an overreach.
Research rendering: Your mother was not sexually unchaste.
The predicate describes the mother's sexual character within a family reproach; an abstract action noun is grammatically and contextually incoherent.
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal reconciliation of all 96 occurrences. Direct objects and form VIII anchor purposeful seeking; عَلَى, بِغَيْرِ ٱلْحَقِّ, distortion, and barrier contexts anchor overreach as pursuit beyond a due bound; form VII presents what is fitting or attainable. The compacted 'overreach' candidate fits the بَغْي action noun but fails on the two بَغِيّ person-predicates, which receive an exact same-core sexual-status rendering. The single بِغاء noun is rendered from its explicit coercion/chastity/worldly-gain context rather than external commentary.