فَمَا ٱسْطَٰعُوٓا۟ أَن يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ لَهُۥ نَقْبًا
Quran glossary · draft
نقب
penetrate
To make or seek a passage through a barrier or region.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: نقب
Lemmas: نقب
Forms: نَقْبًا · نَقَّبُ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُم مِّن قَرْنٍ هُمْ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُم بَطْشًا فَنَقَّبُوا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ هَلْ مِن مَّحِيصٍ
Why this meaning was chosen
All three occurrences were inspected together. A breach in the barrier and intensive movement through lands share passage-making. The appointed human representative in 5:12 instead bears an office within a covenant; that human-role predicate contradicts a physical or regional passage event, so the exact one-segment noun scope is a lexical collision.