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.

79:10

يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى ٱلْحَافِرَةِ

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.