Quran glossary · draft

عضو

disjoint portions

Separate portions produced by dividing what should remain a unified whole.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عضو

Lemmas: عضين

Forms: عِضِينَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

15:91

ٱلَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا۟ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ عِضِينَ

Where other meanings fail

one whole

15:91

ٱلَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا۟ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ عِضِينَ

Alternative: those who made the Quran one whole

Research rendering: those who made the Quran disjoint portions

Plural result morphology and the preceding designation of the agents as dividers require separation rather than unification.

body members

15:91

ٱلَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا۟ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ عِضِينَ

Alternative: those who made the Quran body members

Research rendering: those who made the Quran disjoint portions

No organism supplies a membership frame; the Quran is a unified textual whole acted upon by dividers.