Quran glossary · draft

غَمْرَةُ الغَفْلَة

engulfing heedlessness

A mentally engulfing state of confusion and heedlessness.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: غمر

Lemmas: غمرة

Forms: غَمْرَةٍ · غَمْرَتِ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

23:54

فَذَرْهُمْ فِى غَمْرَتِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍ

23:63

بَلْ قُلُوبُهُمْ فِى غَمْرَةٍ مِّنْ هَٰذَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَٰلٌ مِّن دُونِ ذَٰلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَٰمِلُونَ

51:11

ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى غَمْرَةٍ سَاهُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All four occurrences were reviewed. The plural describes the overwhelming throes of death; three singular uses describe hearts and people submerged in heedless confusion. Engulfment unifies the physical and cognitive profiles.