The Semantic Similarities in the Meditation Words in the Holy

The reader of the Hoy Quran’s interpretations suffers the misconception of three different, but related, concepts, namely: al-xidaaʕ ‘deception’, al-kayd ‘machination’, and al-makr ‘wiliness’, where each concept entails the others even in the old dictionaries. This study tries to capture the semantic differences between these three different concepts based on the premise th…