Quran glossary · draft

عَاقِر

barren

The active participle characterizes a woman whose childbearing capacity is cut off.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: عقر

Lemmas: عاقر

Forms: عَاقِرًا · عَاقِرٌ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

3:40

قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَقَدْ بَلَغَنِىَ ٱلْكِبَرُ وَٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرٌ قَالَ كَذَٰلِكَ ٱللَّهُ يَفْعَلُ مَا يَشَآءُ

19:5

وَإِنِّى خِفْتُ ٱلْمَوَٰلِىَ مِن وَرَآءِى وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًا فَهَبْ لِى مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيًّا

19:8

قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًا وَقَدْ بَلَغْتُ مِنَ ٱلْكِبَرِ عِتِيًّا

Why this meaning was chosen

All eight family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Five form I perfect verbs describe Thamud's fatal disabling of the she-camel; person, number, object suffix, and narrative subject compose locally. Three active participles characterize Zechariah's wife as unable to bear a child, with case and predication composed morphologically. The contexts select physical striking down versus generative incapacity, but both instantiate disabling a living capacity at its source; no Quran-internal contradiction requires a collision branch. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.