قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنَّا نَبْغِ فَٱرْتَدَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَارِهِمَا قَصَصًا
Quran glossary · draft
قَصَّ الْأَثَرَ
follow a trace
To follow the successive marks of a physical trail.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: قصص
Lemmas: قصص · قص
Forms: قَصَصًا · قُصِّ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَقَالَتْ لِأُخْتِهِۦ قُصِّيهِ فَبَصُرَتْ بِهِۦ عَن جُنُبٍ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal comparison across all 30 family occurrences supports precise following as the shared core. قِصاص matches a response to the prior injury; narrative verbs and nouns follow events in an ordered recounting; the cave journey and Moses' sister follow physical traces; 6:57 applies the root to truth in a judgment-and-separation context and remains explicitly reviewable. No protected or pre-run meaning was edited, and no exact segment set forces a lexical collision.