Quran glossary · draft

سَكَتَ

subsided

For anger to become still and cease directing a person's actions.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: سكت

Lemmas: سكت

Forms: سَكَتَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

7:154

وَلَمَّا سَكَتَ عَن مُّوسَى ٱلْغَضَبُ أَخَذَ ٱلْأَلْوَاحَ وَفِى نُسْخَتِهَا هُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِرَبِّهِمْ يَرْهَبُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The single family occurrence was reviewed on one page. Anger is personified as becoming silent and inactive toward Moses, after which he takes up the tablets again.