Quran glossary · draft

فِى فَجْوَةٍ مِّنْهُ

an open space

An open interior area within the cave.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: فجو

Lemmas: فجوة

Forms: فَجْوَةٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

18:17

وَتَرَى ٱلشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَت تَّزَٰوَرُ عَن كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَت تَّقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ ٱلشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِى فَجْوَةٍ مِّنْهُ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ مَن يَهْدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلْمُهْتَدِ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُۥ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the feminine noun فَجْوَة at 18:17. The sleepers are located in this space within their cave, while the rising sun inclines away to the right and the setting sun passes them to the left. The فِي and مِنْهُ construction places the space inside the cave, and the described solar clearance supports an open interior area rather than a narrow recess. The target is indefinite feminine genitive singular after فِي. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.