Quran glossary · draft

وِعَاء، وَعَى، وَاعِيَة، أَوْعَى

content retention

A holder receives or has contents placed within a bounded capacity and keeps them there rather than immediately releasing or losing them.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 7

Roots: وعي

Lemmas: وعاء · أوعى · تعي · واعية

Forms: وِعَآءِ · أَوْعِيَتِ · تَعِيَ · وَٰعِيَةٌ · أَوْعَىٰٓ · يُوعُ

Occurrence examples (7 of 7)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 7.

12:76

فَبَدَأَ بِأَوْعِيَتِهِمْ قَبْلَ وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَخْرَجَهَا مِن وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ كَذَٰلِكَ كِدْنَا لِيُوسُفَ مَا كَانَ لِيَأْخُذَ أَخَاهُ فِى دِينِ ٱلْمَلِكِ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَٰتٍ مَّن نَّشَآءُ وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِى عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

12:76

فَبَدَأَ بِأَوْعِيَتِهِمْ قَبْلَ وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَخْرَجَهَا مِن وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ كَذَٰلِكَ كِدْنَا لِيُوسُفَ مَا كَانَ لِيَأْخُذَ أَخَاهُ فِى دِينِ ٱلْمَلِكِ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَٰتٍ مَّن نَّشَآءُ وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِى عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

12:76

فَبَدَأَ بِأَوْعِيَتِهِمْ قَبْلَ وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَخْرَجَهَا مِن وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ كَذَٰلِكَ كِدْنَا لِيُوسُفَ مَا كَانَ لِيَأْخُذَ أَخَاهُ فِى دِينِ ٱلْمَلِكِ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَٰتٍ مَّن نَّشَآءُ وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِى عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

69:12

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ

69:12

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ

70:18

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ

84:23

وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ

Where other meanings fail

understanding

12:76

فَبَدَأَ بِأَوْعِيَتِهِمْ قَبْلَ وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَخْرَجَهَا مِن وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ كَذَٰلِكَ كِدْنَا لِيُوسُفَ مَا كَانَ لِيَأْخُذَ أَخَاهُ فِى دِينِ ٱلْمَلِكِ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَٰتٍ مَّن نَّشَآءُ وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِى عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

Alternative: he extracted it from his brother's understanding

Research rendering: he extracted it from his brother's container

A physical object is extracted from a possessed receptacle, requiring material enclosure rather than cognition.

mere hearing

69:12

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ

Alternative: an ear merely hears the reminder and may immediately lose it

Research rendering: a retentive ear retains the reminder

The adjacent verb and participle both profile preservation, making reception without retention too weak.

gather

70:18

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ

Alternative: he gathered and then merely gathered again

Research rendering: he gathered and stored within

Coordination places the family verb after جمع, so it must contribute retained storage beyond acquisition.

physical vessel

84:23

وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ

Alternative: Allah knows best what physical vessels they are

Research rendering: Allah knows best what they store within

The finite plural verb takes relative content and profiles inward retention; vessel is the concrete noun's morphological realization.