Quran glossary · draft

صِرّ

blighting force

A destructive force carried within a wind that blights cultivation.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: صرر

Lemmas: صر

Forms: صِرٌّ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

3:117

مَثَلُ مَا يُنفِقُونَ فِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ رِيحٍ فِيهَا صِرٌّ أَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَلَٰكِنْ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

Where other meanings fail

persist

3:117

مَثَلُ مَا يُنفِقُونَ فِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ رِيحٍ فِيهَا صِرٌّ أَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَلَٰكِنْ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

Alternative: persist

Research rendering: blighting force

At 3:117 the noun is contained in a wind that strikes cultivation and destroys it. It is neither an agent nor a knowingly chosen course, so the exact wind-borne segment contradicts the persistence core and is a lexical collision. The wind contains the noun, strikes a people's cultivation, and destroys it, fixing a wind-borne blighting force.