Quran glossary · draft

سفر

become bright

To emerge into visible brightness.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 2

Roots: سفر

Lemmas: أسفر · مسفرة

Forms: أَسْفَرَ · مُّسْفِرَةٌ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

74:34

وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ

80:38

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ مُّسْفِرَةٌ

Where other meanings fail

travel on a journey

74:34

وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ

Alternative: travel on a journey

Research rendering: become bright

Substitution fails here: travel on a journey would impose the first unit's predicate on a segment whose frozen form and Quran-internal construction require become bright. This is the concrete contradiction supporting the lexeme partition.