Quran glossary · draft

قُرْبَة

means of nearness

قُرْبَة denotes an act treated as a means of attaining nearness.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: قرب

Lemmas: قربة

Forms: قُرُبَٰتٍ · قُرْبَةٌ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

9:99

وَمِنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ مَن يُؤْمِنُ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ وَيَتَّخِذُ مَا يُنفِقُ قُرُبَٰتٍ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ وَصَلَوَٰتِ ٱلرَّسُولِ أَلَآ إِنَّهَا قُرْبَةٌ لَّهُمْ سَيُدْخِلُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِى رَحْمَتِهِۦٓ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

9:99

وَمِنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ مَن يُؤْمِنُ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ وَيَتَّخِذُ مَا يُنفِقُ قُرُبَٰتٍ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ وَصَلَوَٰتِ ٱلرَّسُولِ أَلَآ إِنَّهَا قُرْبَةٌ لَّهُمْ سَيُدْخِلُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِى رَحْمَتِهِۦٓ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 96 family occurrences were reviewed on the required page. The protected يَقْرَب draft remains untouched. Spatial, temporal, relational, kinship, devotional, and status contexts retain one nearness core; each scope branch and form rule uses one English rendering.