Quran glossary · draft

ٱلتَّابُوت

chest

The noun denotes a portable container that encloses and carries what is placed within it.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Lemmas: تابوت

Forms: تَّابُوتُ · تَّابُوتِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

2:248

وَقَالَ لَهُمْ نَبِيُّهُمْ إِنَّ ءَايَةَ مُلْكِهِۦٓ أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ ٱلتَّابُوتُ فِيهِ سَكِينَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَبَقِيَّةٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ ءَالُ مُوسَىٰ وَءَالُ هَٰرُونَ تَحْمِلُهُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَةً لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

20:39

أَنِ ٱقْذِفِيهِ فِى ٱلتَّابُوتِ فَٱقْذِفِيهِ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ فَلْيُلْقِهِ ٱلْيَمُّ بِٱلسَّاحِلِ يَأْخُذْهُ عَدُوٌّ لِّى وَعَدُوٌّ لَّهُۥ وَأَلْقَيْتُ عَلَيْكَ مَحَبَّةً مِّنِّى وَلِتُصْنَعَ عَلَىٰ عَيْنِىٓ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; both are frozen targets, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Quran 2:248 describes the chest as arriving with tranquility and remnants within it and as carried by angels; 20:39 instructs that the infant Moses be placed in the chest and the chest cast into the river. The contents and episode vary while the enclosing-container function remains stable. Definiteness, nominative versus genitive case, and governing syntax compose locally. No aligned reading payload, contradiction, or unresolved issue is present.