وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ
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.
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.