قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى وَهَنَ ٱلْعَظْمُ مِنِّى وَٱشْتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأْسُ شَيْبًا وَلَمْ أَكُنۢ بِدُعَآئِكَ رَبِّ شَقِيًّا
Quran glossary · draft
شيب
gray-white hair
The visible state in which a bearer's hair has lost youthful coloration and become gray-white.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 3
Roots: شيب
Lemmas: شيب · شيبة
Forms: شَيْبًا · شَيْبَةً · شِيبًا
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن ضَعْفٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ضَعْفٍ قُوَّةً ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ قُوَّةٍ ضَعْفًا وَشَيْبَةً يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْقَدِيرُ
فَكَيْفَ تَتَّقُونَ إِن كَفَرْتُمْ يَوْمًا يَجْعَلُ ٱلْوِلْدَٰنَ شِيبًا
Where other meanings fail
overwhelming terror
19:4
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى وَهَنَ ٱلْعَظْمُ مِنِّى وَٱشْتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأْسُ شَيْبًا وَلَمْ أَكُنۢ بِدُعَآئِكَ رَبِّ شَقِيًّا
Alternative: my bone has weakened and my head has flared with overwhelming terror
Research rendering: my bone has weakened and my head has flared gray-white
Zechariah presents bodily age markers; the head-state token is not an emotion or event.
weakness
30:54
ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن ضَعْفٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ضَعْفٍ قُوَّةً ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ قُوَّةٍ ضَعْفًا وَشَيْبَةً يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْقَدِيرُ
Alternative: then after strength He made weakness and weakness
Research rendering: then after strength He made weakness and gray-white hair
The two coordinated nouns identify distinct conditions, so collapsing gray hair into weakness erases the contrast.
fire
30:54
ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن ضَعْفٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ضَعْفٍ قُوَّةً ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ قُوَّةٍ ضَعْفًا وَشَيْبَةً يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْقَدِيرُ
Alternative: after strength He made weakness and fire
Research rendering: after strength He made weakness and gray-white hair
Fire belongs only to the flaring image at 19:4 and contradicts the post-strength bodily condition.
old people
73:17
فَكَيْفَ تَتَّقُونَ إِن كَفَرْتُمْ يَوْمًا يَجْعَلُ ٱلْوِلْدَٰنَ شِيبًا
Alternative: a day that makes the children old people
Research rendering: a day that makes the children gray-haired
The result predicate assigns an aged-looking hair state to children; it does not replace their stated child identity.