Quran glossary · draft

مسالك الماء النابعة في الأرض

earth waterway

Water moves through a channel situated in the earth and can issue from that channel at the surface.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: نبع

Lemmas: ينبوع

Forms: يَنۢبُوعًا · يَنَٰبِيعَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

17:90

وَقَالُوا۟ لَن نُّؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ يَنۢبُوعًا

39:21

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَسَلَكَهُۥ يَنَٰبِيعَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ يُخْرِجُ بِهِۦ زَرْعًا مُّخْتَلِفًا أَلْوَٰنُهُۥ ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَىٰهُ مُصْفَرًّا ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُۥ حُطَٰمًا إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَذِكْرَىٰ لِأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Reviewed both 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. In 17:90 a demanded sign is to break one spring out from the earth. In 39:21 rainwater is conducted as multiple springs within the earth before vegetation emerges. Outflow and underground routing are complementary phases of one ground-water channel.