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