وَلَمَّا جَآءَتْ رُسُلُنَا لُوطًا سِىٓءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا وَقَالَ هَٰذَا يَوْمٌ عَصِيبٌ
Quran glossary · draft
ذرع
constrained capacity
Available scope for effective action becoming too narrow for a crisis.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: ذرع
Lemmas: ذرع
Forms: ذَرْعًا
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَلَمَّآ أَن جَآءَتْ رُسُلُنَا لُوطًا سِىٓءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَخَفْ وَلَا تَحْزَنْ إِنَّا مُنَجُّوكَ وَأَهْلَكَ إِلَّا ٱمْرَأَتَكَ كَانَتْ مِنَ ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ
Why this meaning was chosen
ذِرَاع names an extended forelimb and the cubit unit derived from its span. ذَرْع names measured extent in the chain description, while the expression ضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا depicts Lot's available reach or capacity becoming too narrow for the crisis. The concrete limb, fixed measure, and figurative scope remain internally connected.