Quran glossary · draft

لما

exhaustive emphasis

Within an إِنْ كُلّ construction, to place every member of the total set emphatically under the following predicate.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 3

Lemmas: لما

Forms: لَّمَّا · لَمَّا

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

36:32

وَإِن كُلٌّ لَّمَّا جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ

43:35

وَزُخْرُفًا وَإِن كُلُّ ذَٰلِكَ لَمَّا مَتَٰعُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ عِندَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ

86:4

إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ

Where other meanings fail

deferred negation

36:32

وَإِن كُلٌّ لَّمَّا جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ

Alternative: deferred negation

Research rendering: exhaustive emphasis

Substitution fails here: deferred negation would impose the first unit's predicate on a segment whose frozen form and Quran-internal construction require exhaustive emphasis. This is the concrete contradiction supporting the lexeme partition.