Quran glossary · draft

نبش الغراب للأرض لإظهار المواراة

crow digging earth

The crow opens the earth's surface in a way that demonstrates how a body can be concealed.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: بحث

Lemmas: يبحث

Forms: يَبْحَثُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

5:31

فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ قَالَ يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّٰدِمِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Reviewed the sole frozen occurrence on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected meanings, compacted proposals, failure candidates, or aligned witness variants on the target row. God sends a crow performing the action in the earth so the killer can see how to conceal his brother's body. Ground displacement that demonstrates burial supplies the Quran-internal core.