وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تُقْسِطُوا۟ فِى ٱلْيَتَٰمَىٰ فَٱنكِحُوا۟ مَا طَابَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ مَثْنَىٰ وَثُلَٰثَ وَرُبَٰعَ فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا۟ فَوَٰحِدَةً أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُكُمْ ذَٰلِكَ أَدْنَىٰٓ أَلَّا تَعُولُوا۟
Quran glossary · draft
ثُلَاث
in threes
The distributive cardinal arranges the counted entities in sets of three.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: ثلث
Lemmas: ثلاث
Forms: ثُلَٰثَ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ فَاطِرِ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ جَاعِلِ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ رُسُلًا أُو۟لِىٓ أَجْنِحَةٍ مَّثْنَىٰ وَثُلَٰثَ وَرُبَٰعَ يَزِيدُ فِى ٱلْخَلْقِ مَا يَشَآءُ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Why this meaning was chosen
All 32 family occurrences were reviewed on one page, with no protected segments or compacted candidates. Quran 7:142 anchors thirty by adding ten to reach forty; Quran 36:14 anchors the ordinal by adding a third messenger after two; and Quran 73:20 coordinates two thirds and one third with one half as measured portions of the night. The remaining cardinal and distributive occurrences consistently count entities, durations, groups, branches, or ordered members. The exact target is partitioned by lemma, numerical function, and number morphology, with no witness-sensitive context or unresolved challenge.