Quran glossary · draft

سمر

the Samiri

The named individual who misled Moses' people in the calf episode.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: سمر

Lemmas: سامري

Forms: سَّامِرِىُّ · سَٰمِرِىُّ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

20:85

قَالَ فَإِنَّا قَدْ فَتَنَّا قَوْمَكَ مِنۢ بَعْدِكَ وَأَضَلَّهُمُ ٱلسَّامِرِىُّ

20:87

قَالُوا۟ مَآ أَخْلَفْنَا مَوْعِدَكَ بِمَلْكِنَا وَلَٰكِنَّا حُمِّلْنَآ أَوْزَارًا مِّن زِينَةِ ٱلْقَوْمِ فَقَذَفْنَٰهَا فَكَذَٰلِكَ أَلْقَى ٱلسَّامِرِىُّ

20:95

قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكَ يَٰسَٰمِرِىُّ

Why this meaning was chosen

The common noun سَامِر occurs once in a scene of arrogant, objectionable talk and denotes the conversational gathering. The remaining forms are the proper name al-Samiri for the individual who misled Moses' people through the calf. The Quran offers no internal derivational link from that name to evening conversation, so the proper-name branch is kept as a lexical collision.