Quran glossary · draft

جَوْف

interior

The inside of a person's body where the heart is contained.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: جوف

Lemmas: جوف

Forms: جَوْفِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

33:4

مَّا جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ لِرَجُلٍ مِّن قَلْبَيْنِ فِى جَوْفِهِۦ وَمَا جَعَلَ أَزْوَٰجَكُمُ ٱلَّٰٓـِٔى تُظَٰهِرُونَ مِنْهُنَّ أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ وَمَا جَعَلَ أَدْعِيَآءَكُمْ أَبْنَآءَكُمْ ذَٰلِكُمْ قَوْلُكُم بِأَفْوَٰهِكُمْ وَٱللَّهُ يَقُولُ ٱلْحَقَّ وَهُوَ يَهْدِى ٱلسَّبِيلَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The single family occurrence was reviewed on one page. جَوْف names the bodily interior within which a man's heart is located, in the denial that any man has two hearts there.