Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 222
ختر assuaged. كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَهُمْ سَعِيرًا : Every time it (the fire of Hell( abates We shall increase for them the flame (17:98). ختر ]aor. يَخْتُرُ and يَخْتِرُ inf. noun خَيْرًا and خَتَرَهُ خُتُوْرًا : He acted or behaved towards him with perfidy, treachery or unfaithfulness or with deceit, guile or circumvention. خَتَرَ بِالْعَهْدِ : He was unfaithful etc. , to the covenant. خَتَرَتْ نَفْسُهُ : His stomach became heavy; or became agitated by a tendency to vomit; became in a disordered state. ختار : One who acts or behaves with perfidy or treachery or with the foulest perfidy; one who acts or behaves with deceit, guile or circumvention or in a corrupt manner and does so much or frequently or habitually. إِلَّا كُلُّ خَبَّارٍ كَفُوْرٍ : None but every perfidious and ungrateful person (31:33). لک شر ختم ]aor. يَخْتِمُ inf. noun خَتْمٌ and خَتَمَ الشَّيْءَ أَوْخَتَمَ عَلَيْهِ [ خِتَامٌ : He sealed 28 stamped, impressed or imprinted the thing or he put the seal on it. خَتَمَ الشَّيْءَ : He reached the end of the thing. خَتْمٌ and طبع signify the impressing of a thing with the engraving of signet and stamp. The former sometimes means the securing oneself from a thing and protecting oneself from it; in consideration of protection by means of sealing upon writings; sometimes it means the producing of an impression or effect upon a thing from another thing; in consideration of the impress produced by the signet, sometimes it is used as relating to the reaching the end of a thing. Or the primary signification of ختم is the act of covering over a thing. The word also signifies the protecting of what is in a writing by means of a seal. خَتَمَ عَلَيْكَ بَابَهُ : He sealed his door against thee i. e. he turned away from thee or avoided thee. خَتَمَ لَكَ بَابَهُ : He sealed for thee his door i. e. he preferred thee to others. خَتَمَ عَلَى قَلْبِهِ : He (God) sealed his heart i. e. he made his heart or mind to be such as it understood not. خَتَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَى قُلُوْبِهِمْ وَعَلَى سَمْعِهِمْ : Allah has set a seal on their hearts and their ears )2:8( خَاتَمٌ )Khatam) and خَاتِمٌ )Khatim) and خَتْمٌ )Khatmun) are almost synonymous خَاتَمّ )Khatam) means a signet-ring; a seal or stamp and a mark; the end or lost part or portion and result and issue of a thing. إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِخَوَاتِيْمِهَا : 222