دحر

Core meaning

To drive away forcefully and with no return: the rejection that expels the one who has transgressed.

Uses

1. مَدْحُورًا → "driven away" : the one expelled; the word always follows a first qualifier of condemnation.

   • «قَالَ ٱخْرُجْ مِنْهَا مَذْءُومًۭا مَّدْحُورًۭا» — "Get out of here, reviled, driven away" (7:18)
   • «فَتُلْقَىٰ فِى جَهَنَّمَ مَلُومًۭا مَّدْحُورًا» — "you would be cast into Jahannam, censured, driven away" (17:39)

2. دُحُورًا → "driven away violently" : the verbal noun: the thrust that repels those who strain to hear the sublime court.

   • «دُحُورًۭا» — "driven away violently" (37:9)

Evidence from the text

The word is each time a sentence. In 7:18 it accompanies the order to get out given to the Diverter; in 17:18 and 17:39 it follows "reproved" or "blamed" and states the lot of the one who wants the immediate life, or of the one who places another deity alongside God; in 37:9 it states the thrust that repels, from every side, those who seek to listen to the sublime court.

The rejection is never a mere moving away: it answers a transgression, and it leaves no return.

Distinctions

• رجم — to banish: to drive far off, as one keeps away with stones, whereas دَحَرَ states the thrust itself
• طرد — to chase from one's presence, a gesture always forbidden to the messenger toward those who believe

See also

لوم (to blame)