وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
Quran glossary · draft
مسنون
formed
Mud set into a defined shape.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 3
Roots: سنن
Lemmas: مسنون
Forms: مَّسْنُونٍ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِنِّى خَٰلِقٌۢ بَشَرًا مِّن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
قَالَ لَمْ أَكُن لِّأَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُۥ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
Where other meanings fail
established course
15:26
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
Alternative: established course
Research rendering: formed
In 15:26, 15:28, and 15:33 the passive participle modifies حمإ, the mud from which a human is made through صلصال. An established historical course cannot grammatically qualify this creation material, so these exact segments are a lexical collision. Human creation proceeds from sounding clay derived from mud bearing the participle, supporting a material set into form.