Quran glossary · draft

بَهِيمَةُ ٱلْأَنْعَام

livestock animal

A provided animal from the livestock class, eligible for food and ritual slaughter subject to divine rules.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: بهم

Lemmas: بهيمة

Forms: بَهِيمَةِ · بَهِيمَةُ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

5:1

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ أَوْفُوا۟ بِٱلْعُقُودِ أُحِلَّتْ لَكُم بَهِيمَةُ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ إِلَّا مَا يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ غَيْرَ مُحِلِّى ٱلصَّيْدِ وَأَنتُمْ حُرُمٌ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحْكُمُ مَا يُرِيدُ

22:28

لِّيَشْهَدُوا۟ مَنَٰفِعَ لَهُمْ وَيَذْكُرُوا۟ ٱسْمَ ٱللَّهِ فِىٓ أَيَّامٍ مَّعْلُومَٰتٍ عَلَىٰ مَا رَزَقَهُم مِّنۢ بَهِيمَةِ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ فَكُلُوا۟ مِنْهَا وَأَطْعِمُوا۟ ٱلْبَآئِسَ ٱلْفَقِيرَ

22:34

وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ جَعَلْنَا مَنسَكًا لِّيَذْكُرُوا۟ ٱسْمَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَىٰ مَا رَزَقَهُم مِّنۢ بَهِيمَةِ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ فَإِلَٰهُكُمْ إِلَٰهٌ وَٰحِدٌ فَلَهُۥٓ أَسْلِمُوا۟ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلْمُخْبِتِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences of بَهِيمَة, each in the construct phrase بَهِيمَةُ ٱلْأَنْعَام. In 5:1 this class is made lawful subject to stated exceptions; in 22:28 and 22:34 it is God's provision over which His name is remembered, with eating and feeding explicitly commanded in 22:28. The fixed construct and shared ritual-food setting establish one livestock-animal core. Case variation follows syntax without lexical change. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.