Quran glossary · draft

ٱسْتَكَانُوا

submit

To yield in humbled submission when confronted by hardship or authority.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: كين

Lemmas: استكان

Forms: ٱسْتَكَانُ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

3:146

وَكَأَيِّن مِّن نَّبِىٍّ قَٰتَلَ مَعَهُۥ رِبِّيُّونَ كَثِيرٌ فَمَا وَهَنُوا۟ لِمَآ أَصَابَهُمْ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا ضَعُفُوا۟ وَمَا ٱسْتَكَانُوا۟ وَٱللَّهُ يُحِبُّ ٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ

23:76

وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَٰهُم بِٱلْعَذَابِ فَمَا ٱسْتَكَانُوا۟ لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both family occurrences were reviewed on one page. Each is the negated form-X plural verb ٱسْتَكَانُوا, denying that the people yielded under hardship or humbled themselves before their Lord.