Quran glossary · draft

ضنن

withholding

Holding back knowledge instead of conveying it.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ضنن

Lemmas: ضنين

Forms: ضَنِينٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

81:24

وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى ٱلْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole adjective is negated of the messenger in relation to the unseen, within a passage affirming the trustworthy delivery of revelation. The rendering supplies the withheld-information relation; the separate Quranic negation denies that quality of him.