Quran glossary · draft

خَرَقَ

pierce boundary

Penetrate an intact physical boundary so that its continuity is breached.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 3

Roots: خرق

Lemmas: خرق

Forms: تَخْرِقَ · خَرَقَ · خَرَقْ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

17:37

وَلَا تَمْشِ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مَرَحًا إِنَّكَ لَن تَخْرِقَ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَلَن تَبْلُغَ ٱلْجِبَالَ طُولًا

18:71

فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا رَكِبَا فِى ٱلسَّفِينَةِ خَرَقَهَا قَالَ أَخَرَقْتَهَا لِتُغْرِقَ أَهْلَهَا لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْـًٔا إِمْرًا

18:71

فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا رَكِبَا فِى ٱلسَّفِينَةِ خَرَقَهَا قَالَ أَخَرَقْتَهَا لِتُغْرِقَ أَهْلَهَا لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْـًٔا إِمْرًا

Where other meanings fail

fabricate

17:37

وَلَا تَمْشِ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مَرَحًا إِنَّكَ لَن تَخْرِقَ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَلَن تَبْلُغَ ٱلْجِبَالَ طُولًا

Alternative: you will never fabricate the earth

Research rendering: you will never pierce the earth

The earth already supplies the physical object opposed to the walker's arrogant force; the construction tests penetration, not bringing an earth proposition into existence.

fabricated

18:71

فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا رَكِبَا فِى ٱلسَّفِينَةِ خَرَقَهَا قَالَ أَخَرَقْتَهَا لِتُغْرِقَ أَهْلَهَا لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْـًٔا إِمْرًا

Alternative: after they boarded the ship, he fabricated it; did you fabricate it to drown its people?

Research rendering: after they boarded the ship, he breached it; did you breach it to drown its people?

The ship exists before the event and remains the patient whose damage could drown occupants; fabrication contradicts the boarding sequence and physical consequence.