Quran glossary · draft

غَسَق وغَاسِق

enveloping darkness

The onset of an enveloping dark condition.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: غسق

Lemmas: غسق · غاسق

Forms: غَسَقِ · غَاسِقٍ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

17:78

أَقِمِ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ لِدُلُوكِ ٱلشَّمْسِ إِلَىٰ غَسَقِ ٱلَّيْلِ وَقُرْءَانَ ٱلْفَجْرِ إِنَّ قُرْءَانَ ٱلْفَجْرِ كَانَ مَشْهُودًا

113:3

وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All four occurrences were compared. غَسَقِ اللَّيْل anchors the canonical core in deep nightfall, and غَاسِق provisionally profiles a darkening presence when it enters. The two exact غَسَّاق segments instead denote something tasted in punishment beside boiling liquid. A consumable punitive substance contradicts a temporal darkness state and is isolated as an exact lexical collision. Its material identity and the narrower referent of غَاسِق remain explicit review questions. No aligned reading divergence is present.