Quran glossary · draft

الْحَزَن وَالْحُزْن

state of sorrow

The inward state of sorrow arising from loss or adversity.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 5

Roots: حزن

Lemmas: حزن

Forms: حَزَنًا · حُزْنِ · حَزَنَ

Occurrence examples (5 of 5)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 5.

9:92

وَلَا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا مَآ أَتَوْكَ لِتَحْمِلَهُمْ قُلْتَ لَآ أَجِدُ مَآ أَحْمِلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ تَوَلَّوا۟ وَّأَعْيُنُهُمْ تَفِيضُ مِنَ ٱلدَّمْعِ حَزَنًا أَلَّا يَجِدُوا۟ مَا يُنفِقُونَ

12:84

وَتَوَلَّىٰ عَنْهُمْ وَقَالَ يَٰٓأَسَفَىٰ عَلَىٰ يُوسُفَ وَٱبْيَضَّتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنَ ٱلْحُزْنِ فَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ

12:86

قَالَ إِنَّمَآ أَشْكُوا۟ بَثِّى وَحُزْنِىٓ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَأَعْلَمُ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

28:8

فَٱلْتَقَطَهُۥٓ ءَالُ فِرْعَوْنَ لِيَكُونَ لَهُمْ عَدُوًّا وَحَزَنًا إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَٰمَٰنَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا كَانُوا۟ خَٰطِـِٔينَ

35:34

وَقَالُوا۟ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَذْهَبَ عَنَّا ٱلْحَزَنَ إِنَّ رَبَّنَا لَغَفُورٌ شَكُورٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 42 family occurrences were inspected. The 13 protected third-person-plural segments owned by MH-frontier-yahzanun-grieve were not edited; their recurring pairing with the absence of fear supports the same grief core. The 29 editable targets distinguish the experiencer's grief, a subject that induces grief in another, and the nominal state itself. Quran-internal anchors include tears from inability to join an expedition, Jacob's grief over Joseph, a mother's relief when her child is restored, and Paradise where grief is removed. No compacted candidate, collision, reading divergence, or unresolved semantic question remains.