Quran glossary · draft

قمع

mace

A mace is a heavy striking implement used to subdue and drive back.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: قمع

Lemmas: مقامع

Forms: مَّقَٰمِعُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

22:21

وَلَهُم مَّقَٰمِعُ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ

Where other meanings fail

iron garments

22:21

وَلَهُم مَّقَٰمِعُ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ

Alternative: for them are garments of iron

Research rendering: for them are maces of iron

The sequence has already assigned garments of fire as a separate punishment; the target introduces another plural entity of iron before describing escapees being driven back.