مَثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَوْلِيَآءَ كَمَثَلِ ٱلْعَنكَبُوتِ ٱتَّخَذَتْ بَيْتًا وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ ٱلْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ ٱلْعَنكَبُوتِ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
عنكب
house-building spider
The house-building spider in the comparison of fragile reliance.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: عنكب
Lemmas: عنكبوت
Forms: عَنكَبُوتِ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
مَثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَوْلِيَآءَ كَمَثَلِ ٱلْعَنكَبُوتِ ٱتَّخَذَتْ بَيْتًا وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ ٱلْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ ٱلْعَنكَبُوتِ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Both targets occur in one comparison. The first names the spider as the creature that takes a house; the second marks the house as belonging to the same spider. Syntactic placement changes while the animal kind remains identical.