Quran glossary · draft

شعل

blaze

To spread visibly with the intensity of a blaze.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: شعل

Lemmas: اشتعل

Forms: ٱشْتَعَلَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

19:4

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى وَهَنَ ٱلْعَظْمُ مِنِّى وَٱشْتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأْسُ شَيْبًا وَلَمْ أَكُنۢ بِدُعَآئِكَ رَبِّ شَقِيًّا

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole form VIII perfect predicates the action of the head with grayness as its specification. The fire image expresses gray hair's extensive visible spread; this contextual metaphor remains one core rather than a collision.