وَخُذْ بِيَدِكَ ضِغْثًا فَٱضْرِب بِّهِۦ وَلَا تَحْنَثْ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَٰهُ صَابِرًا نِّعْمَ ٱلْعَبْدُ إِنَّهُۥٓ أَوَّابٌ
Quran glossary · draft
حنث
violate commitment
Fail a binding commitment or obligation, thereby constituting a culpable breach.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 2
Roots: حنث
Lemmas: تحنث · حنث
Forms: تَحْنَثْ · حِنثِ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَكَانُوا۟ يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى ٱلْحِنثِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
Where other meanings fail
doubt
38:44
وَخُذْ بِيَدِكَ ضِغْثًا فَٱضْرِب بِّهِۦ وَلَا تَحْنَثْ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَٰهُ صَابِرًا نِّعْمَ ٱلْعَبْدُ إِنَّهُۥٓ أَوَّابٌ
Alternative: take a bundle, strike with it, and do not doubt
Research rendering: take a bundle, strike with it, and do not violate your commitment
The specified performance is coupled to avoiding a breach; no proposition, evidence, or uncertainty participant is supplied for a doubt predicate.
forgetfulness
56:46
وَكَانُوا۟ يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى ٱلْحِنثِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
Alternative: they persisted upon the great forgetfulness
Research rendering: they persisted upon the grave violation
Persistence depicts maintained culpable conduct, while forgetfulness would remove the binding-violation relation established by the verbal occurrence.