Quran glossary · draft

الحَسَر

weariness

A condition of strength or resources being depleted by sustained exertion or expenditure.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: حسر

Lemmas: محسور · يستحسر · حسير

Forms: مَّحْسُورًا · يَسْتَحْسِرُ · حَسِيرٌ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

17:29

وَلَا تَجْعَلْ يَدَكَ مَغْلُولَةً إِلَىٰ عُنُقِكَ وَلَا تَبْسُطْهَا كُلَّ ٱلْبَسْطِ فَتَقْعُدَ مَلُومًا مَّحْسُورًا

21:19

وَلَهُۥ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَنْ عِندَهُۥ لَا يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِهِۦ وَلَا يَسْتَحْسِرُونَ

67:4

ثُمَّ ٱرْجِعِ ٱلْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ ٱلْبَصَرُ خَاسِئًا وَهُوَ حَسِيرٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

Nine noun contexts converge on retrospective sorrow. Three remaining forms instead predicate depleted capacity: overspending leaves a person drained, angels do not grow weary, and repeated looking returns weary. Because those exhaustion predicates do not denote sorrow over a past outcome, they are isolated as a lexical collision.