Quran glossary · draft

جثو

kneel

To settle on the knees in a posture of compelled submission.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: جثو

Lemmas: جثي · جاثية

Forms: جِثِيًّا · جَاثِيَةً

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

19:68

فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَحْشُرَنَّهُمْ وَٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ ثُمَّ لَنُحْضِرَنَّهُمْ حَوْلَ جَهَنَّمَ جِثِيًّا

19:72

ثُمَّ نُنَجِّى ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوا۟ وَّنَذَرُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ فِيهَا جِثِيًّا

45:28

وَتَرَىٰ كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ جَاثِيَةً كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ تُدْعَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ كِتَٰبِهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All three occurrences were inspected together. People gathered around Hell, wrongdoers left within it, and every community awaiting its record share the same lowered knee posture under judgment. Event noun and active participle are compositional.