Quran glossary · draft

سفر

become bright

To emerge into visible brightness.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · 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

Why this meaning was chosen

Eight occurrences denote travel, including أَسْفَار at 34:19. The identical plural at 62:5 is carried by a donkey and therefore names written volumes. Form IV describes dawn and faces becoming bright, while سَفَرَة names honored agents whose hands hold purified scrolls. The three non-travel clusters are retained as Quran-internally distinct lexical collisions.