وَلِلَّهِ غَيْبُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَآ أَمْرُ ٱلسَّاعَةِ إِلَّا كَلَمْحِ ٱلْبَصَرِ أَوْ هُوَ أَقْرَبُ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Quran glossary · draft
لَمْحُ ٱلْبَصَرِ
glance
A fleeting act of sight serving as an image of near-instantaneous speed.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: لمح
Lemmas: لمح
Forms: لَمْحِ · لَمْحٍۭ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَمَآ أَمْرُنَآ إِلَّا وَٰحِدَةٌ كَلَمْحٍۭ بِٱلْبَصَرِ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered both occurrences of the verbal noun لَمْح, each in a comparison with sight. In 16:77 the Hour's command is like a glance of sight or nearer; in 54:50 God's command is one act like a glance with sight. The repeated comparison and explicit emphasis on immediacy establish a momentary visual action used as a speed measure. Definiteness variation does not change the core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.