Quran glossary · draft

ٱلْبُخْل

withholding

The conduct of refusing called-for giving or expenditure.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: بخل

Lemmas: بخل

Forms: بُخْلِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

4:37

ٱلَّذِينَ يَبْخَلُونَ وَيَأْمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلْبُخْلِ وَيَكْتُمُونَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِۦ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَذَابًا مُّهِينًا

57:24

ٱلَّذِينَ يَبْخَلُونَ وَيَأْمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلْبُخْلِ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلْغَنِىُّ ٱلْحَمِيدُ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all 12 occurrences. Ten Form I predicates describe retaining divine bounty or refusing called-for expenditure; two action nouns name the same conduct when people command it to others. Giving, spending, and divine bounty repeatedly supply the withheld domain, while 47:38 states that the consequence returns against the withholding self. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. No protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.