وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا كَمَآءٍ أَنزَلْنَٰهُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَٱخْتَلَطَ بِهِۦ نَبَاتُ ٱلْأَرْضِ فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِيمًا تَذْرُوهُ ٱلرِّيَٰحُ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مُّقْتَدِرًا
Quran glossary · draft
هَشِيم
dry debris
Dry, broken plant matter left as light fragments.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: هشم
Lemmas: هشيم
Forms: هَشِيمًا · هَشِيمِ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً فَكَانُوا۟ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ
Why this meaning was chosen
Both family occurrences were reviewed on one page. One describes vegetation dried and scattered by wind; the other compares a destroyed people to the broken dry material of an enclosure. Both instantiate the same result noun هَشِيم.