ثُمَّ فِى سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًا فَٱسْلُكُوهُ
Quran glossary · draft
ذرع
measured arm span
Length expressed through the arm-span unit called a cubit.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: ذرع
Lemmas: ذرع · ذراع
Forms: ذَرْعُ · ذِرَاعًا
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
ثُمَّ فِى سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًا فَٱسْلُكُوهُ
Why this meaning was chosen
ذِرَاع names an extended forelimb and the cubit unit derived from its span. ذَرْع names measured extent in the chain description, while the expression ضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا depicts Lot's available reach or capacity becoming too narrow for the crisis. The concrete limb, fixed measure, and figurative scope remain internally connected.