Quran glossary · draft

قَصَمْنَا

shattered

To destroy a wrongdoing community so completely that another people succeeds it.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: قصم

Lemmas: قصم

Forms: قَصَمْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

21:11

وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَأَنشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of Form I قَصَمْنَا at 21:11. God states that many wrongdoing towns received this action, after which He brought forth other peoples in their place; when the former people sense the punishment, they try to flee and are told to return until they become extinguished. Destruction, replacement, flight, and extinction establish forceful shattering of the community rather than a limited setback. The target is first-person plural perfect. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.