وَخُذْ بِيَدِكَ ضِغْثًا فَٱضْرِب بِّهِۦ وَلَا تَحْنَثْ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَٰهُ صَابِرًا نِّعْمَ ٱلْعَبْدُ إِنَّهُۥٓ أَوَّابٌ
Quran glossary · draft
حنث
violate
To violate a binding obligation and thereby incur grave guilt.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · 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
Why this meaning was chosen
Both occurrences were inspected together. Job is instructed how to perform a binding act without violating it, while the condemned persist in a great culpable violation. Verb and offense noun are compositional.