وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَٰفِلًا عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ لِيَوْمٍ تَشْخَصُ فِيهِ ٱلْأَبْصَٰرُ
Quran glossary · draft
شخص
arrested gaze
An unblinking raised gaze held rigid by the confronting event.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: شخص
Lemmas: تشخص · شاخصة
Forms: تَشْخَصُ · شَٰخِصَةٌ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَٱقْتَرَبَ ٱلْوَعْدُ ٱلْحَقُّ فَإِذَا هِىَ شَٰخِصَةٌ أَبْصَٰرُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَا قَدْ كُنَّا فِى غَفْلَةٍ مِّنْ هَٰذَا بَلْ كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Both targets take eyes as the grammatical or displaced subject at the approach of judgment. The finite verb presents the event, while the active participle presents its continuing result. Terror is supplied by the surrounding eschatological context; the lexical contribution is the fixed, lifted gaze.