Quran glossary · draft

متقابلين

facing one another

Participants arranged reciprocally so that each faces the others.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4

Roots: قبل

Lemmas: متقابل

Forms: مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ · مُتَقَٰبِلِينَ

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

15:47

وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِى صُدُورِهِم مِّنْ غِلٍّ إِخْوَٰنًا عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ

37:44

عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ

44:53

يَلْبَسُونَ مِن سُندُسٍ وَإِسْتَبْرَقٍ مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ

56:16

مُّتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَيْهَا مُتَقَٰبِلِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 294 family occurrences were reviewed in three pages. The protected qabl occurrences already render the temporal front as before, while the protected Form I passives render receptive engagement as be accepted; neither record was edited. Across the frozen set, qiblah is repeatedly paired with turning the face and shatr at 2:142-145, aqbala marks movement or turning toward, Form VI marks reciprocal facing, and Forms I/V mark taking something favorably toward oneself. Qabil and qaba'il are lexicalized company/group nouns within the same family. The seven aligned witnesses were checked for the delicate qubulan/qabilan/qibal contexts and preserve the relevant forms; they do not by themselves settle the two stated English-rendering questions. No accepted meaning or pre-run draft was edited.