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