Quran glossary · draft

ٱغْلُظ وغِلْظَة

unyielding firmness

To exhibit unyielding firmness toward an opposing party.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: غلظ

Lemmas: اغلظ · غلظة

Forms: ٱغْلُظْ · غِلْظَةً

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

9:73

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّبِىُّ جَٰهِدِ ٱلْكُفَّارَ وَٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ وَٱغْلُظْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَمَأْوَىٰهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ وَبِئْسَ ٱلْمَصِيرُ

9:123

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ قَٰتِلُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يَلُونَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْكُفَّارِ وَلْيَجِدُوا۟ فِيكُمْ غِلْظَةً وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَعَ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ

66:9

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّبِىُّ جَٰهِدِ ٱلْكُفَّارَ وَٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ وَٱغْلُظْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَمَأْوَىٰهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ وَبِئْسَ ٱلْمَصِيرُ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 13 occurrences support a single unyielding-density core. A crop physically thickens; hearts and agents become hard in manner; covenants carry resistant binding force; punishments are severe; and imperatives demand firmness toward opponents. These are contextual targets of the same non-yielding force. No compacted candidate, collision, reading divergence, or unresolved question remains.