Quran glossary · draft

جوب

carve

To cut a passage or shaped space through rock.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: جوب

Lemmas: جاب

Forms: جَابُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

89:9

وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ

Why this meaning was chosen

At 2:186 the Form IV statement answering a caller's دعوة is followed by the Form X instruction that people respond to God, fixing a single call-and-response relation. The noun جواب and agent مجيب preserve that core. The Form I occurrence at 89:9 instead takes rock as its object in a valley and cannot carry a response rendering, so it is isolated as an exact lexical collision.