Quran glossary · draft

شرع

open approach

Coming forward along an open, conspicuous approach.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: شرع

Lemmas: شرع

Forms: شُرَّعًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

7:163

وَسْـَٔلْهُمْ عَنِ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ ٱلَّتِى كَانَتْ حَاضِرَةَ ٱلْبَحْرِ إِذْ يَعْدُونَ فِى ٱلسَّبْتِ إِذْ تَأْتِيهِمْ حِيتَانُهُمْ يَوْمَ سَبْتِهِمْ شُرَّعًا وَيَوْمَ لَا يَسْبِتُونَ لَا تَأْتِيهِمْ كَذَٰلِكَ نَبْلُوهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Four occurrences concern a divinely or falsely established course in religion: the nominal forms are followed or paired with a way, and the verbs take religion as their domain. The Sabbath fish are described as coming on the observed day but not on other days; شُرَّعًا characterizes their conspicuous approach. Prescribed course and open approach retain the shared profile of an accessible way rather than being split as homographs.