Quran glossary · draft

مرج

coral

Coral as a marine jewel material.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: مرج

Lemmas: مرجان

Forms: مَرْجَانُ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

55:22

يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُمَا ٱللُّؤْلُؤُ وَٱلْمَرْجَانُ

55:58

كَأَنَّهُنَّ ٱلْيَاقُوتُ وَٱلْمَرْجَانُ

Why this meaning was chosen

The two seas are released to flow and meet while a barrier prevents transgression; a matter is described as confused; and the substance of fire from which the jinn is created is a moving, mingling flame. The noun مَرْجَان denotes coral in two marine or jewel comparisons, but the Quran-internal contexts supply no semantic bridge from coral to unsettled movement, so it is retained as a lexical collision.