نفى

Core meaning

To expel from the territory: exile as a sanction.

Uses

1. يُنفَوْا۟ → "be exiled" : the last of the listed sanctions, which removes belonging to the territory.

   • «أَوْ يُنفَوْا۟ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ» — "or be exiled from the earth" (5:33)

Evidence from the text

The single occurrence closes a list of graduated sanctions against those who wage war against God and His messenger and sow corruption (5:33): putting to death, fixing to the stake, hands and feet severed on opposite sides, exile. The complement "from the earth" specifies an expulsion from the territory.

Distinctions

• رجم — to banish, to drive off with stones; نفى exiles from the territory