Quran glossary · draft

فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ

frail

The sky rendered frail and unable to retain its former cohesion after rupture.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · 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

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the feminine Form I active participle وَاهِيَة at 69:16. On that day the sky has split open and consequently bears this state, before angels stand at its edges. The preceding rupture and temporal result construction establish loss of structural strength and cohesion. The target is indefinite feminine nominative singular as the predicate of the pronoun referring to the sky. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.