ثبى

Core meaning

The group that sets out apart from the others: the troop mobilized in detachments, as opposed to all setting out together.

Uses

1. ثُبَات → "in detachments" : a fractioned mobilization, in distinct groups.

   • «فَٱنفِرُوا۟ ثُبَاتٍ أَوِ ٱنفِرُوا۟ جَمِيعًۭا» — "mobilize in detachments, or mobilize all together" (4:71)

Evidence from the text

The word occurs only once, and the sentence defines it itself: ثُبَات is opposed to جَمِيعًا, "all together". These are two ways of one same mobilization, both permitted: setting out in several separate groups, or in a single block. The command that precedes, "Take your precautions" (4:71), says what the choice depends on: the caution the danger calls for.

Distinctions

• جمع — "all together": mobilization in a single block, which ثُبَات divides

See also

نفر (to mobilize) · حذر (precaution)