أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَٰهُمَا وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمَآءِ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ حَىٍّ أَفَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
رتق
joined closure
A closed, joined state before separation.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: رتق
Lemmas: رتق
Forms: رَتْقًا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
The heavens and earth are predicated as this state, followed immediately by God's splitting them apart. That explicit before-and-after contrast supplies unusually direct Quran-internal evidence for joined closure.