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.

18:64

قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنَّا نَبْغِ فَٱرْتَدَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَارِهِمَا قَصَصًا

28:11

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.