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.

19:23

فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَٰلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا

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.