Quran glossary · draft

بُكْرَة وإِبْكَار

early day

The opening portion of the day before its later progression.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 9

Roots: بكر

Lemmas: بكرة · إبكار

Forms: بُكْرَةً · إِبْكَٰرِ

Occurrence examples (9 of 9)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 9.

3:41

قَالَ رَبِّ ٱجْعَل لِّىٓ ءَايَةً قَالَ ءَايَتُكَ أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ ٱلنَّاسَ ثَلَٰثَةَ أَيَّامٍ إِلَّا رَمْزًا وَٱذْكُر رَّبَّكَ كَثِيرًا وَسَبِّحْ بِٱلْعَشِىِّ وَٱلْإِبْكَٰرِ

19:11

فَخَرَجَ عَلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلْمِحْرَابِ فَأَوْحَىٰٓ إِلَيْهِمْ أَن سَبِّحُوا۟ بُكْرَةً وَعَشِيًّا

19:62

لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا إِلَّا سَلَٰمًا وَلَهُمْ رِزْقُهُمْ فِيهَا بُكْرَةً وَعَشِيًّا

25:5

وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ٱكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِىَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا

33:42

وَسَبِّحُوهُ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا

40:55

فَٱصْبِرْ إِنَّ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقٌّ وَٱسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنۢبِكَ وَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ بِٱلْعَشِىِّ وَٱلْإِبْكَٰرِ

48:9

لِّتُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦ وَتُعَزِّرُوهُ وَتُوَقِّرُوهُ وَتُسَبِّحُوهُ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا

54:38

وَلَقَدْ صَبَّحَهُم بُكْرَةً عَذَابٌ مُّسْتَقِرٌّ

76:25

وَٱذْكُرِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All 12 occurrences were inspected. The protected بِكْر segment at 2:68 remains untouched under its accepted owner. The nine editable temporal nouns denote the opening part of the daily cycle, repeatedly contrasted with evening. The two أَبْكَار segments denote women in a first marital state, explicitly contrasted with previously married women at 66:5. These realizations share an unpreceded initial-state core. No candidate, aligned reading divergence, or unresolved semantic question remains.