Quran glossary · draft

ٱلْأَرْضَ هَامِدَةً

lifeless

The earth lying without visible life before water revives its growth.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: همد

Lemmas: هامدة

Forms: هَامِدَةً

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

22:5

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّنَ ٱلْبَعْثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ عَلَقَةٍ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضْغَةٍ مُّخَلَّقَةٍ وَغَيْرِ مُخَلَّقَةٍ لِّنُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ وَنُقِرُّ فِى ٱلْأَرْحَامِ مَا نَشَآءُ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ثُمَّ نُخْرِجُكُمْ طِفْلًا ثُمَّ لِتَبْلُغُوٓا۟ أَشُدَّكُمْ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُتَوَفَّىٰ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرْذَلِ ٱلْعُمُرِ لِكَيْلَا يَعْلَمَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ عِلْمٍ شَيْـًٔا وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ هَامِدَةً فَإِذَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا ٱلْمَآءَ ٱهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ وَأَنۢبَتَتْ مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍۭ بَهِيجٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the feminine Form I active participle هَامِدَة at 22:5. The earth is seen in this state before God sends water upon it; it then stirs, swells, and grows every delightful kind, as evidence for resurrection. The before-and-after contrast with motion, expansion, and growth establishes dormant lifelessness. The target is indefinite feminine accusative singular as the second object or circumstantial complement after تَرَى, agreeing with the earth. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.