Quran glossary · draft

أَثْقَلَتْ

grow heavy

To enter a state of increased bodily weight.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ثقل

Lemmas: أثقلت

Forms: أَثْقَلَت

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

7:189

هُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَٰحِدَةٍ وَجَعَلَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا لِيَسْكُنَ إِلَيْهَا فَلَمَّا تَغَشَّىٰهَا حَمَلَتْ حَمْلًا خَفِيفًا فَمَرَّتْ بِهِۦ فَلَمَّآ أَثْقَلَت دَّعَوَا ٱللَّهَ رَبَّهُمَا لَئِنْ ءَاتَيْتَنَا صَٰلِحًا لَّنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal core tested across all 28 family occurrences, all of which are assigned targets and were partitioned exactly. Physical clouds, loads, pregnancy, and scales anchor measurable weight; the Hour, a day, a communicated word, liability, and reluctance extend the same pressing relation to consequence or obligation. مِثْقَال names a weight quantity, while Form IV and Form VI profile entering or taking on a weighted state. The checked seven aligned readings preserve the family forms and shared relation. The generic contrast خِفَافًا وَثِقَالًا at 9:41 does not specify which human condition supplies the weight, and the dual title ٱلثَّقَلَانِ at 55:31 does not itself state why its two addressed communities are called weighty; both are retained for user review. No exact lexical collision was found.