وَٱتَّخَذَ قَوْمُ مُوسَىٰ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ مِنْ حُلِيِّهِمْ عِجْلًا جَسَدًا لَّهُۥ خُوَارٌ أَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّهُۥ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمْ وَلَا يَهْدِيهِمْ سَبِيلًا ٱتَّخَذُوهُ وَكَانُوا۟ ظَٰلِمِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
خُوَار
lowing
A calf-like vocal sound lacking articulate speech.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: خور
Lemmas: خوار
Forms: خُوَارٌ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
فَأَخْرَجَ لَهُمْ عِجْلًا جَسَدًا لَّهُۥ خُوَارٌ فَقَالُوا۟ هَٰذَآ إِلَٰهُكُمْ وَإِلَٰهُ مُوسَىٰ فَنَسِىَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered both occurrences of the Form I verbal noun خُوَار. In parallel accounts, a bodily calf fashioned for Moses's people has this sound; 7:148 immediately contrasts it with the calf's inability to speak or guide. The repeated calf association and speech contrast establish an animal vocalization rather than articulate language. Both occurrences have the same form and construction. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.