قَالَ ٱلْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَسَٰحِرٌ عَلِيمٌ
Quran glossary · draft
سَاحِر
sorcerer
The active participant form identifies a practitioner of sorcery, with person and number supplied morphologically.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 22
Roots: سحر
Lemmas: ساحر
Forms: سَّحَرَةُ · سَٰحِرٌ · سَٰحِرٍ · سَّاحِرُ · سَّٰحِرُونَ · سَٰحِرَٰنِ · سَّحَرَةَ · سَاحِرٌ
Occurrence examples (10 of 22)
Scoped occurrences shown: the first 10 of 22 in Quran order. They are included as a compact, position-based preview and are not ranked as stronger evidence than the omitted occurrence count of 12.
يَأْتُوكَ بِكُلِّ سَٰحِرٍ عَلِيمٍ
وَجَآءَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ فِرْعَوْنَ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّ لَنَا لَأَجْرًا إِن كُنَّا نَحْنُ ٱلْغَٰلِبِينَ
وَأُلْقِىَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سَٰجِدِينَ
أَكَانَ لِلنَّاسِ عَجَبًا أَنْ أَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَنْ أَنذِرِ ٱلنَّاسَ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ أَنَّ لَهُمْ قَدَمَ صِدْقٍ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ قَالَ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَسَٰحِرٌ مُّبِينٌ
قَالَ مُوسَىٰٓ أَتَقُولُونَ لِلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَكُمْ أَسِحْرٌ هَٰذَا وَلَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلسَّٰحِرُونَ
وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ ٱئْتُونِى بِكُلِّ سَٰحِرٍ عَلِيمٍ
فَلَمَّا جَآءَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ قَالَ لَهُم مُّوسَىٰٓ أَلْقُوا۟ مَآ أَنتُم مُّلْقُونَ
قَالُوٓا۟ إِنْ هَٰذَٰنِ لَسَٰحِرَٰنِ يُرِيدَانِ أَن يُخْرِجَاكُم مِّنْ أَرْضِكُم بِسِحْرِهِمَا وَيَذْهَبَا بِطَرِيقَتِكُمُ ٱلْمُثْلَىٰ
وَأَلْقِ مَا فِى يَمِينِكَ تَلْقَفْ مَا صَنَعُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُوا۟ كَيْدُ سَٰحِرٍ وَلَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلسَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَىٰ
Why this meaning was chosen
All 63 family occurrences were reviewed on one page, with no protected segments or compacted candidates. Quran 2:102 anchors a taught, harmful practice that can separate spouses; Quran 7:116 anchors manipulation of people's eyes and fear; Quran 20:66 calls the produced effect imagined. Three vocalized سَحَر occurrences instead denote the pre-dawn time: 3:17 and 51:18 locate seeking forgiveness then, while 54:34 locates rescue then. Those three form an exact Quran-internal homograph branch, and the other 60 targets compose from sorcery by noun, voice, agent, intensity, and recipient morphology.