Quran glossary · draft

ضنك

constricted

Painfully narrow and difficult, lacking ease or spaciousness.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ضنك

Lemmas: ضنك

Forms: ضَنكًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

20:124

وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِى فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكًا وَنَحْشُرُهُۥ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ أَعْمَىٰ

Where other meanings fail

easeful

20:124

وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِى فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكًا وَنَحْشُرُهُۥ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ أَعْمَىٰ

Alternative: an easeful life

Research rendering: a constricted life

The life is assigned as the immediate adverse result of turning away and is paired with being gathered blind; a positive ease reading reverses the clause's consequence structure.