Quran glossary · accepted

ل ق ي

encounter

One spatial-relational operation in which an entity comes into encounter with a person, thing, condition, place, surface, event, or direction. Morphology determines whether an occurrence names direct encounter, causation, reception, reciprocity, a participant, or direction.

Lexical scope

Scope: root · Occurrences: 146

Roots: لقي

Lemmas: ألقى · لقاء · لق · التقى · لقى · تلقى · ملاقوا · تلقاء · ملقي · يلاق · ملاقي · لاقي

Forms: لِقَآءَ · أَلْقَىٰ · أَلْقَ · لِقَآءِ · أَلْقُ · أَلْقِ · أُلْقِىَ · أَلْقَيْ · ٱلْتَقَى · أَلْقَى · لَقِي · يَلْقَ · لِقَآئِ · لَقُ · مُّلَٰقُوا۟ · يُلْقُ · يُلْقِى · يُلَقَّىٰ · يُلَٰقُ · تُلْقُ · نُلْقِى · تِلْقَآءَ · تُلْقِىَ · مُّلْقُونَ · يُلْقَىٰٓ · أُلْقُ · أَلْقِيَ · مُلَٰقِي · تَلَقَّىٰٓ · مُّلَٰقُو · ٱلْتَقَ · تَلْقَ · أَلْقَىٰٓ · مُلْقِينَ · أُلْقِى · ٱلْتَقَيْ · تِلْقَآئِ · يَلْقَىٰ · تُلْقَىٰ · لَقِيَ · يُلْقِ · تَتَلَقَّىٰ · تَلَقَّ · يُلَقَّ · تُلَقَّى · لَٰقِي · لِّقَآئِ · تَّلَاقِ · يُلْقَىٰ · لِّقَآءِ · يَتَلَقَّى · مُتَلَقِّيَانِ · ءُلْقِىَ · يَلْتَقِيَ · مُلَٰقٍ · لَقَّىٰ · مُلْقِيَٰتِ · أَلْقَتْ

Occurrence examples (10 of 146)

Scoped occurrences shown: the first 10 of 146 in Quran order. They are included as a compact, position-based preview and are not ranked as stronger evidence than the omitted occurrence count of 136.

2:14

وَإِذَا لَقُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا وَإِذَا خَلَوْا۟ إِلَىٰ شَيَٰطِينِهِمْ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا مَعَكُمْ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِءُونَ

2:37

فَتَلَقَّىٰٓ ءَادَمُ مِن رَّبِّهِۦ كَلِمَٰتٍ فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلتَّوَّابُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ

2:46

ٱلَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلَٰقُوا۟ رَبِّهِمْ وَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ

2:76

وَإِذَا لَقُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا وَإِذَا خَلَا بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ قَالُوٓا۟ أَتُحَدِّثُونَهُم بِمَا فَتَحَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ لِيُحَآجُّوكُم بِهِۦ عِندَ رَبِّكُمْ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

2:195

وَأَنفِقُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تُلْقُوا۟ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى ٱلتَّهْلُكَةِ وَأَحْسِنُوٓا۟ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ

2:223

نِسَآؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَّكُمْ فَأْتُوا۟ حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّىٰ شِئْتُمْ وَقَدِّمُوا۟ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّكُم مُّلَٰقُوهُ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

2:249

فَلَمَّا فَصَلَ طَالُوتُ بِٱلْجُنُودِ قَالَ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ مُبْتَلِيكُم بِنَهَرٍ فَمَن شَرِبَ مِنْهُ فَلَيْسَ مِنِّى وَمَن لَّمْ يَطْعَمْهُ فَإِنَّهُۥ مِنِّىٓ إِلَّا مَنِ ٱغْتَرَفَ غُرْفَةًۢ بِيَدِهِۦ فَشَرِبُوا۟ مِنْهُ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِّنْهُمْ فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَهُۥ هُوَ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مَعَهُۥ قَالُوا۟ لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا ٱلْيَوْمَ بِجَالُوتَ وَجُنُودِهِۦ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلَٰقُوا۟ ٱللَّهِ كَم مِّن فِئَةٍ قَلِيلَةٍ غَلَبَتْ فِئَةً كَثِيرَةًۢ بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَٱللَّهُ مَعَ ٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ

3:13

قَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ ءَايَةٌ فِى فِئَتَيْنِ ٱلْتَقَتَا فِئَةٌ تُقَٰتِلُ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَأُخْرَىٰ كَافِرَةٌ يَرَوْنَهُم مِّثْلَيْهِمْ رَأْىَ ٱلْعَيْنِ وَٱللَّهُ يُؤَيِّدُ بِنَصْرِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَبْصَٰرِ

3:44

ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ أَنۢبَآءِ ٱلْغَيْبِ نُوحِيهِ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا كُنتَ لَدَيْهِمْ إِذْ يُلْقُونَ أَقْلَٰمَهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ يَكْفُلُ مَرْيَمَ وَمَا كُنتَ لَدَيْهِمْ إِذْ يَخْتَصِمُونَ

3:119

هَٰٓأَنتُمْ أُو۟لَآءِ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْكِتَٰبِ كُلِّهِۦ وَإِذَا لَقُوكُمْ قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا وَإِذَا خَلَوْا۟ عَضُّوا۟ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْأَنَامِلَ مِنَ ٱلْغَيْظِ قُلْ مُوتُوا۟ بِغَيْظِكُمْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ

Quran-internal lexical rationale

One operation across the family

This is not context changing the meaning. لقي retains one spatial-relational operation, encounter, with morphology determining how an occurrence is named.

The invariant is encounter: a participant or transferred theme enters operative contact or presence with a counterpart, recipient, destination, surface, condition, event, or direction. The surrounding verse identifies the participants and circumstances; it does not replace that relation with a fresh lexical meaning.

Morphology profiles different sides of that one operation. Form I and Form III name encounter directly. Form II presents a recipient with what enters encounter with them. Form IV casts a theme into encounter with a destination. Form V names the receptive side as receive. Form VIII names reciprocal encounter, while the participles name encountering, casting, or receiving participants.

The contrast between 27:6 and 2:37 makes the method visible. In 27:6, passive Form II تُلَقَّى presents the addressee as being presented with the Quran. In 2:37, active Form V تَلَقَّى presents Adam as receiving words. Similar surface letters do not authorize one undifferentiated English gloss; the recorded form and voice determine which side of encounter is profiled.

The noun تِلْقَاء names direction, the direction in which an encounter lies. Motion or a preposition can therefore produce movement toward that direction or origin from it without turning toward, facing, and accord into competing meanings of the noun itself.

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