فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَٰلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا
Quran glossary · draft
مخض
labor
Labor is the painful process that brings a pregnancy to childbirth.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: مخض
Lemmas: مخاض
Forms: مَخَاضُ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
pregnancy
19:23
فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَٰلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا
Alternative: pregnancy drove her to the palm trunk
Research rendering: labor drove her to the palm trunk
The preceding verse has already placed Mary in pregnancy; the target introduces the new forceful process leading from that condition into childbirth.