وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
Quran glossary · draft
هيه
feminine singular anaphor
An independent third-person feminine singular pronoun that retrieves a salient feminine singular discourse referent.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Forms: هِيَهْ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
fire
101:10
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
Alternative: what is fire—a scorching fire
Research rendering: what is it—a scorching fire
The following clause answers the identity question; lexicalizing that answer inside the pronoun destroys the anaphoric question-answer relation.