Quran glossary · draft

جُرُز

barren

Depleted of vegetation and presently unable to display productive growth.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: جرز

Lemmas: جرز

Forms: جُرُزًا · جُرُزِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

18:8

وَإِنَّا لَجَٰعِلُونَ مَا عَلَيْهَا صَعِيدًا جُرُزًا

32:27

أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّا نَسُوقُ ٱلْمَآءَ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلْجُرُزِ فَنُخْرِجُ بِهِۦ زَرْعًا تَأْكُلُ مِنْهُ أَنْعَٰمُهُمْ وَأَنفُسُهُمْ أَفَلَا يُبْصِرُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered both adjectival occurrences of جُرُز. In 18:8 the adornment of the earth will be reduced to barren ground; in 32:27 water is driven to barren land and then brings forth crops. Loss of surface growth in the first passage and renewed growth after water in the second establish one vegetation-depleted land core. Case variation follows syntax and does not change the sense. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.