Quran glossary · draft

كنس

hide away

To hide away is to withdraw from visible movement into concealment.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: كنس

Lemmas: كنس

Forms: كُنَّسِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

81:16

ٱلْجَوَارِ ٱلْكُنَّسِ

Where other meanings fail

that sweep

81:16

ٱلْجَوَارِ ٱلْكُنَّسِ

Alternative: by the running bodies that sweep

Research rendering: by the running bodies that hide away

The verse supplies no affected surface or object, and the adjacent descriptors concern the bodies' own movement and visibility.

the planets

81:16

ٱلْجَوَارِ ٱلْكُنَّسِ

Alternative: by the running planets

Research rendering: by the running ones that hide away

A specific referent class is not lexically named by the adjective; it contributes the concealment behavior regardless of referent.