ثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
ثلل
multitude
A numerous body of people.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 3
Roots: ثلل
Lemmas: ثلة
Forms: ثُلَّةٌ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
ثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
وَثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِينَ
Where other meanings fail
few
56:13
ثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Alternative: a few from the earlier peoples
Research rendering: a multitude from the earlier peoples
The next line after 56:13 explicitly uses a different expression, قَلِيلٌ, for the few from the later peoples; substituting 'few' for ثُلَّة collapses that quantity contrast.