جبت
الجِبْتُ, not a pure Arabic word, because it comprises the letters ح and ت without any of the letters of the kind called ذَوْلَقِىّ [which are ر and ل and ن]; (
S;) The idol: (
S,
K:) or idols: (
Ksh in iv. 54:) or the name of a certain idol, (
Bd and
Jel on that verse,) belonging to Kureysh; as also الطَّاغُوتُ: (
Jel:) and that which is worshipped instead, or to the exclusion, of God; whatever it be: (
Ksh,
Bd,
K:) said to be originally الجِبْسُ, i. e., (
Bd,) he, or that, wherein is no good: (
Bd,
K:) and the diviner: (
S,
K:) and the enchanter: (
S,
K,
Kull:) and the like thereof: (
S:) or the Devil; Satan: (
Kull:) and enchantment. (Esh-Shaabee,
K.)
Accord. to Esh-Shaabee, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالجِبْتِ وَالطَّاغُوتِ, in the
Kur [iv. 54], means They believe in enchantment and the Devil: or,
accord. to I' Ab, by الجبت is meant Hoyeí Ibn-Akhtab; and by الطاغوت, Kaab Ibn-El-Ashraf: (
TA:) or the words relate to these two men, Jews, who, in order to induce Kureysh to join with them in a league against Mohammad, prostrated themselves to the gods of Kureysh: (
Ksh,
Bd:) or to certain Jews, who said that the worship of idols is more pleasing to God than that to which Mohammad invited. (
Bd.) It is said in a
trad. that what are termed الطِّيَرَةُ and العِيَافَةُ and الطَّرْقُ are مِنَ الجِبْتِ [
app. meaning of things wherein is no good: or kinds of divination: or from the Devil]. (
S.)
