Quran glossary · draft

قِفُوهُمْ

detain

The active imperative commands the addressees to stop and hold a group for questioning.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: وقف

Lemmas: وقف

Forms: قِفُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

37:24

وَقِفُوهُمْ إِنَّهُم مَّسْـُٔولُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All four family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Two form I passive perfect verbs and one passive participle present wrongdoers as made to stand or held before the fire or their Lord. One active imperative commands agents to stop and hold them for questioning. Voice, tense, person, number, participial state, preposition, and purpose compose morphologically and locally. All four preserve compelled stationary presentation, with no Quran-internal contradiction, aligned reading payload, compacted candidate, or unresolved issue.