Meaning: threw it away · Also translated as: threw away, Then they threw it, throw back, then threw it
Forms in the Quran
فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ×2
نَّبَذَهُۥ×1
نَبَذَ×1
فَنَبَذُوهُ×1
فَٱنۢبِذْ×1
فَنَبَذْتُهَا×1
فَنَبَذْنَٰهُ×1
لَنُبِذَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
النبذ: إلقاء الشيء وطرحه لقلة الاعتداد به، ولذلك يقال: نبذته نبذ النعل الخلق، قال تعالى: لينبذن في الحطمة
قوله تعالى: ﴿فنبذوه وراء ظهورهم﴾ [آل عمران:187] أي رموه وطرحوه. قوله: ﴿وراء ظهورهم﴾ تمثيل عن قلة مبالاتهم به. لم يكتفوا بطرحه بل لا يهمون به، لأن الإنسان قد يرمي الشيء مع التفاته إليه. وفي المثل: ((نبذه نبذ النعل الخلق)).
And when there came to them
An Apostle from God,
Confirming what was with them,
A party of the People of the Book
Threw away the Book of God
Behind their backs,
As if (it had been something)
They did not know!
And remember
God took a Covenant
From the People of the Book,
To make it known
And clear to mankind,
And not to hide it;
But they threw it away
Behind their backs,
And purchased with it
Some miserable gain!
And vile was the bargain
They made!
He replied: "I saw what
They saw not: so I took
A handful (of dust) from
The footprint of the Apostle,
And threw it (into the calf):
Thus did my soul suggest
To me."