Quran glossary · draft

مِنَ ٱلْمَعْزِ ٱثْنَيْنِ

goats

Domestic goats counted as one male and one female among the eight livestock mates.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: معز

Lemmas: معز

Forms: مَعْزِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

6:143

ثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَزْوَٰجٍ مِّنَ ٱلضَّأْنِ ٱثْنَيْنِ وَمِنَ ٱلْمَعْزِ ٱثْنَيْنِ قُلْ ءَآلذَّكَرَيْنِ حَرَّمَ أَمِ ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِ أَمَّا ٱشْتَمَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ أَرْحَامُ ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِ نَبِّـُٔونِى بِعِلْمٍ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the collective noun مَعْز at 6:143. In an enumeration of eight livestock mates, two are from sheep and two are from this separately named kind; the following challenge asks whether the two males, the two females, or what the females' wombs contain was forbidden. The explicit contrast with sheep, livestock count, and sex-pair structure identify goats as the second small-ruminant kind. The target is definite masculine genitive collective after مِن. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.