Quran glossary · draft

نعل

Moses's sandals

The pair of sandals Moses is told to remove on sacred ground.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نعل

Lemmas: نعلي

Forms: نَعْلَيْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

20:12

إِنِّىٓ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكَ فَٱخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَ إِنَّكَ بِٱلْوَادِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole target is an accusative dual noun with a second-person possessive suffix. Moses is commanded to remove the pair because he is in the sacred valley, establishing ordinary removable foot coverings without requiring further material description.