Quran glossary · draft

قبائل

tribes

Recognizable human descent-groups set alongside broader peoples for mutual knowing.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: قبل

Lemmas: قبائل

Forms: قَبَآئِلَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

49:13

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَٰكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَآئِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوٓا۟ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ أَتْقَىٰكُمْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 294 family occurrences were reviewed in three pages. The protected qabl occurrences already render the temporal front as before, while the protected Form I passives render receptive engagement as be accepted; neither record was edited. Across the frozen set, qiblah is repeatedly paired with turning the face and shatr at 2:142-145, aqbala marks movement or turning toward, Form VI marks reciprocal facing, and Forms I/V mark taking something favorably toward oneself. Qabil and qaba'il are lexicalized company/group nouns within the same family. The seven aligned witnesses were checked for the delicate qubulan/qabilan/qibal contexts and preserve the relevant forms; they do not by themselves settle the two stated English-rendering questions. No accepted meaning or pre-run draft was edited.