Quran glossary · draft

الكرب المحيط الذي ينجي الله منه

distress requiring rescue

The noun denotes danger experienced as enclosing distress, with God's rescue breaking the pressure.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4

Roots: كرب

Lemmas: كرب

Forms: كَرْبِ · كَرْبٍ

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

6:64

قُلِ ٱللَّهُ يُنَجِّيكُم مِّنْهَا وَمِن كُلِّ كَرْبٍ ثُمَّ أَنتُمْ تُشْرِكُونَ

21:76

وَنُوحًا إِذْ نَادَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ فَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ وَأَهْلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلْكَرْبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

37:76

وَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ وَأَهْلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلْكَرْبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

37:115

وَنَجَّيْنَٰهُمَا وَقَوْمَهُمَا مِنَ ٱلْكَرْبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Reviewed all four frozen occurrences on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected meanings, compacted proposals, failure candidates, or aligned witness variants on the target rows. Every occurrence is governed by divine rescue from كرب. The general statement follows desperate calls amid dangers of land and sea; the three definite uses name the great distress from which Noah, his family, Moses, Aaron, and their people are saved.