Quran glossary · draft

سحب

forced dragging

Forcible bodily movement imposed by dragging a restrained person.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: سحب

Lemmas: يسحب

Forms: يُسْحَبُ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

40:71

إِذِ ٱلْأَغْلَٰلُ فِىٓ أَعْنَٰقِهِمْ وَٱلسَّلَٰسِلُ يُسْحَبُونَ

54:48

يَوْمَ يُسْحَبُونَ فِى ٱلنَّارِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ ذُوقُوا۟ مَسَّ سَقَرَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The passive verb depicts condemned people forcibly dragged. The lexical noun سَحَاب consistently denotes cloud masses that winds raise, drive, spread, gather, and stack across the sky; those Quran-internal motion descriptions preserve the drawn-along image while the noun remains the ordinary cloud designation.