حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ وَادِ ٱلنَّمْلِ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّمْلُ ٱدْخُلُوا۟ مَسَٰكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمَٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۥ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
ٱلنَّمْل
ants
The collective noun denotes ants as the inhabitants of a valley and the addressees told to enter their dwellings.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: نمل
Lemmas: نمل
Forms: نَّمْلِ · نَّمْلُ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ وَادِ ٱلنَّمْلِ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّمْلُ ٱدْخُلُوا۟ مَسَٰكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمَٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۥ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
All four family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. The collective noun نَمْل occurs twice in 27:18, once in the valley construct and once in direct address, while the feminine unit noun نَمْلَة identifies one ant; case and definiteness compose locally. The broken plural أَنَامِل at 3:119 denotes fingertips bitten in rage and cannot mean ants in that clause, creating one exact Quran-internal lexical collision. The collision is confined to that segment. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.