Quran glossary · draft

جبل

created multitudes

A numerous body of created people, especially former generations.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: جبل

Lemmas: جبلة

Forms: جِبِلَّةَ · جِبِلًّا

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

26:184

وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُمْ وَٱلْجِبِلَّةَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

36:62

وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّا كَثِيرًا أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Singular جَبَل and plural جِبَال are identified through height, carving, rock, caves, anchoring, removal, pulverization, and comparison with immense waves or cloud masses. جِبِلَّة in two human-population contexts denotes former created multitudes; no Quran-internal bridge to the terrain noun is demonstrated, so it is isolated as a lexical collision.