Quran glossary · draft

حَاقَ بِآلِ فِرْعَوْنَ سُوءُ ٱلْعَذَابِ

close in upon

For severe punishment to become inescapable around its targets.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: حيق

Lemmas: حاق

Forms: حَاقَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

40:45

فَوَقَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ سَيِّـَٔاتِ مَا مَكَرُوا۟ وَحَاقَ بِـَٔالِ فِرْعَوْنَ سُوٓءُ ٱلْعَذَابِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all ten occurrences. Eight use a recurring formula in which the object of mockery closes in upon the mockers. At 35:43 evil plotting closes in only upon its own people, and at 40:45 severe punishment closes in upon Pharaoh's house after a believer is protected from their plots. Perfect and imperfect aspect vary while adverse consequence returning upon its source remains stable. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.