Quran glossary · draft

مَائِدَةً مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ

meal spread

A spread bearing food and brought into place for a group.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: ميد

Lemmas: مائدة

Forms: مَآئِدَةً

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

5:112

إِذْ قَالَ ٱلْحَوَارِيُّونَ يَٰعِيسَى ٱبْنَ مَرْيَمَ هَلْ يَسْتَطِيعُ رَبُّكَ أَن يُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ قَالَ ٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

5:114

قَالَ عِيسَى ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ ٱللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَآ أَنزِلْ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ تَكُونُ لَنَا عِيدًا لِّأَوَّلِنَا وَءَاخِرِنَا وَءَايَةً مِّنكَ وَٱرْزُقْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ ٱلرَّٰزِقِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all five occurrences. Three identical Form I clauses describe the earth swaying with its occupants unless stabilized by mountains. The two noun occurrences identify a provision-bearing spread requested to descend from heaven. The text clearly fixes each local rendering, but it does not state why مَائِدَة belongs to the same movement family; relating the descending spread to movement into place is therefore tentative. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. That family-level bridge remains a segment-linked review point; no protected meaning was edited, and the distinct forms do not support an exact lexical-collision split.