وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَن تَذْبَحُوا۟ بَقَرَةً قَالُوٓا۟ أَتَتَّخِذُنَا هُزُوًا قَالَ أَعُوذُ بِٱللَّهِ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْجَٰهِلِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
تَذْبَحُ
slaughter
Active second-person masculine plural subjunctive imperfect Form I ذبح: slaughter.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: ذبح
Lemmas: ذبح
Forms: تَذْبَحُ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
sacrifice
2:49
وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَٰكُم مِّنْ ءَالِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوٓءَ ٱلْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَآءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَآءَكُمْ وَفِى ذَٰلِكُم بَلَآءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ
Alternative: They sacrifice your sons as part of the evil torment.
Research rendering: They slaughter your sons as part of the evil torment.
The sons are killed within Pharaoh's torment of the people. Nothing in the verse presents them as an offering, so 'sacrifice' adds a ritual purpose that ذبح itself does not require.