وَلَا يَزَالُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فِى مِرْيَةٍ مِّنْهُ حَتَّىٰ تَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ بَغْتَةً أَوْ يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابُ يَوْمٍ عَقِيمٍ
Quran glossary · draft
عَقِيم
barren
The adjective denotes inability to produce offspring or any fruitful continuation.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4
Roots: عقم
Lemmas: عقيم
Forms: عَقِيمٍ · عَقِيمًا · عَقِيمٌ · عَقِيمَ
Occurrence examples (4 of 4)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.
أَوْ يُزَوِّجُهُمْ ذُكْرَانًا وَإِنَٰثًا وَيَجْعَلُ مَن يَشَآءُ عَقِيمًا إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌ
فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌ
وَفِى عَادٍ إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلرِّيحَ ٱلْعَقِيمَ
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. Two human uses directly concern the absence of offspring. The punishment day and the wind apply the same no-yield quality to events that bring no beneficial continuation. Gender-invariant adjective form, case, definiteness, predication, and head-noun selection compose locally. Human infertility, an unproductive wind, and a punishment day are contextual applications of one lack-of-fruitful-output core, not Quran-internal contradictions. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.