Quran glossary · draft

قَبَس

firebrand

A burning portion carried away from its source.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: قبس

Lemmas: قبس

Forms: قَبَسٍ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

20:10

إِذْ رَءَا نَارًا فَقَالَ لِأَهْلِهِ ٱمْكُثُوٓا۟ إِنِّىٓ ءَانَسْتُ نَارًا لَّعَلِّىٓ ءَاتِيكُم مِّنْهَا بِقَبَسٍ أَوْ أَجِدُ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ هُدًى

27:7

إِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَهْلِهِۦٓ إِنِّىٓ ءَانَسْتُ نَارًا سَـَٔاتِيكُم مِّنْهَا بِخَبَرٍ أَوْ ءَاتِيكُم بِشِهَابٍ قَبَسٍ لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَصْطَلُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences. The noun in the two Moses scenes denotes a burning portion brought from a seen fire so that his family may warm themselves. Form VIII at 57:13 profiles the hypocrites asking to acquire a share from the believers' light. Concrete flame and eschatological light share the transfer of illumination from a source to a recipient. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.