مَّآ أَشْهَدتُّهُمْ خَلْقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَا خَلْقَ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَمَا كُنتُ مُتَّخِذَ ٱلْمُضِلِّينَ عَضُدًا
Quran glossary · draft
عَضُدًا
support
A person relied upon as effective assistance and strength.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: عضد
Lemmas: عضد
Forms: عَضُدًا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered both occurrences of عَضُد. In 18:51 God denies taking misleaders as a support; in 28:35 God promises to strengthen Moses's arm through his brother, immediately followed by protection and prevailing power. The first lexicalizes the support function while the second retains the arm image, but both converge on strength supplied through assistance. Case and definiteness do not create a competing core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.