Quran glossary · draft

ذِى ظُفُرٍ

claw

A hard grasping extremity on an animal.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ظفر

Lemmas: ظفر

Forms: ظُفُرٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

6:146

وَعَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟ حَرَّمْنَا كُلَّ ذِى ظُفُرٍ وَمِنَ ٱلْبَقَرِ وَٱلْغَنَمِ حَرَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ شُحُومَهُمَآ إِلَّا مَا حَمَلَتْ ظُهُورُهُمَآ أَوِ ٱلْحَوَايَآ أَوْ مَا ٱخْتَلَطَ بِعَظْمٍ ذَٰلِكَ جَزَيْنَٰهُم بِبَغْيِهِمْ وَإِنَّا لَصَٰدِقُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered both occurrences. The noun at 6:146 classifies animals by possession of a grasping claw. Form IV at 48:24 describes God granting the believers mastery over opponents before restraining both sides' hands. Physical grasp and gained upper hand preserve one control-through-firm-hold core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and the distinct forms do not support an exact lexical-collision split.