يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى ٱلْحَافِرَةِ
Quran glossary · draft
ٱلْحَافِرَة
former state
The lexicalized substantive denotes the former state to which the speakers question being restored.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: حفر
Lemmas: حافرة
Forms: حَافِرَةِ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Both family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; each is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. At 3:103 حُفْرَة is a physical hollow of fire with a brink and rescue from falling into it. At 79:10 the definite حَافِرَة occurs as the complement of 'be returned,' and the speakers question restoration after death; this selects a former state rather than an excavated hollow. Applying the physical-pit definition to the restoration construction would conflict with its prior-state requirement, so the latter is isolated as an exact lexical collision. Nominal pattern, definiteness, case, preposition, and clause syntax compose locally. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.