Quran glossary · draft

ٱسْتَرَقَ

steal a hearing

Form VIII presents an agent as covertly taking access to speech not rightfully open to it.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: سرق

Lemmas: استرق

Forms: ٱسْتَرَقَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

15:18

إِلَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَرَقَ ٱلسَّمْعَ فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ شِهَابٌ مُّبِينٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

All nine family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; all are frozen targets, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Four Form-I verbs describe or prohibit theft, four active participles designate alleged or legally addressed thieves, and one Form-VIII verb takes hearing covertly. Quran 12:70-81 supplies a sustained internal theft narrative, while 15:18 preserves the same unauthorized-taking core with hearing as the object. Aspect, mood, person, gender, number, case, and negation compose locally. No recitation-sensitive, collision, or unresolved issue remains.