Quran glossary · draft

جو

open air

The open aerial expanse of the sky in which birds fly.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: جوو

Lemmas: جو

Forms: جَوِّ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

16:79

أَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ إِلَى ٱلطَّيْرِ مُسَخَّرَٰتٍ فِى جَوِّ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَا يُمْسِكُهُنَّ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَٰتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole occurrence locates birds within this region of the sky and then speaks of God holding them there. The rendering therefore expresses an aerial space rather than importing a technical atmospheric category.