Quran glossary · draft

النحل

bees

The honey-producing insects that form colonies and construct homes.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نحل

Lemmas: نحل

Forms: نَّحْلِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

16:68

وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلنَّحْلِ أَنِ ٱتَّخِذِى مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا وَمِنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both occurrences were inspected together. One noun characterizes payment of women's marriage dues and permits only their willing return. The other identifies living creatures addressed to build homes; that agent predicate contradicts a transfer manner, so the exact bee segment is a lexical collision.