Quran glossary · draft

أَدْبَرَ

turn away

Active Form IV turns the subject's back and withdraws from what was faced.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: دبر

Lemmas: أدبر

Forms: أَدْبَرَ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

70:17

تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

74:23

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ

79:22

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَىٰ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 44 family occurrences were reviewed on one page. Quran 12:25-28 anchors the physical rear through a shirt torn from behind; 15:65 uses plural backs for following a departing group; 6:45 and its parallels cut off the final remnant; 10:3 and 32:5 direct an affair through its ordered course; and 4:82 reflects beyond a text's surface to test its consequences. The aligned witnesses at 74:33 divide between Form IV أَدْبَرَ and Form I دَبَرَ, but both make the night recede, so the morphology varies without a semantic challenge. All 44 targets are partitioned by construction and derived form.