Quran glossary · draft

مُّذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ

wavering

Remaining indecisively between two sides without joining either one.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ذبذب

Lemmas: مذبذب

Forms: مُّذَبْذَبِينَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

4:143

مُّذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ لَآ إِلَىٰ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَلَآ إِلَىٰ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ ٱللَّهُ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُۥ سَبِيلًا

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the Form II passive participle مُذَبْذَبِينَ at 4:143. The hypocrites are described as being between two sides, neither belonging to this group nor to that group. The explicit بَيْنَ construction and doubled neither-nor qualification establish unsettled movement or indecision between alternatives. The target is masculine plural accusative and describes their state. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.