وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلنَّحْلِ أَنِ ٱتَّخِذِى مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا وَمِنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
النحل
bees
The honey-producing insects that form colonies and construct homes.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: نحل
Lemmas: نحل
Forms: نَّحْلِ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
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16:68
وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلنَّحْلِ أَنِ ٱتَّخِذِى مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا وَمِنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ
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Research rendering: bees
God addresses this collective and directs it to take homes in mountains, trees, and human structures. A living home-building collective cannot be the manner in which a marriage due is transferred, so this exact segment contradicts the canonical core. God reveals to the bees that they should establish homes in mountains, trees, and raised structures, identifying an organized living collective.