قَالَ فَإِنَّهَا مُحَرَّمَةٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً يَتِيهُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَلَا تَأْسَ عَلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
يَتِيهُونَ
wander
To roam the land without arriving at the barred destination.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: تيه
Lemmas: يتيه
Forms: يَتِيهُ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
The single family occurrence was reviewed on one page. The imperfect verb describes the disobedient people wandering through the land during the forty years in which the holy land is forbidden to them.