Quran glossary · draft

أَنَامِل

fingertips

The broken plural denotes the ends of the fingers, not insects.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نمل

Lemmas: أنامل

Forms: أَنَامِلَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

3:119

هَٰٓأَنتُمْ أُو۟لَآءِ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْكِتَٰبِ كُلِّهِۦ وَإِذَا لَقُوكُمْ قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا وَإِذَا خَلَوْا۟ عَضُّوا۟ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْأَنَامِلَ مِنَ ٱلْغَيْظِ قُلْ مُوتُوا۟ بِغَيْظِكُمْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ

Why this meaning was chosen

All four family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. The collective noun نَمْل occurs twice in 27:18, once in the valley construct and once in direct address, while the feminine unit noun نَمْلَة identifies one ant; case and definiteness compose locally. The broken plural أَنَامِل at 3:119 denotes fingertips bitten in rage and cannot mean ants in that clause, creating one exact Quran-internal lexical collision. The collision is confined to that segment. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.