Quran glossary · draft

وهي

frail

Structurally weakened so that former firmness no longer holds.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: وهي

Lemmas: واهية

Forms: وَاهِيَةٌ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

69:16

وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ

Where other meanings fail

destroyed

69:16

وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ

Alternative: the sky will then be destroyed

Research rendering: the sky will then be frail

The discourse continues to treat the sky as an entity with edges after the target state, so total destruction overstates the result.