Quran glossary · draft

حُفْرَة

pit

The noun denotes a physical pit whose edge exposes someone to falling into what it contains.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: حفر

Lemmas: حفرة

Forms: حُفْرَةٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

3:103

وَٱعْتَصِمُوا۟ بِحَبْلِ ٱللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا۟ وَٱذْكُرُوا۟ نِعْمَتَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُمْ أَعْدَآءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِۦٓ إِخْوَٰنًا وَكُنتُمْ عَلَىٰ شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ ٱلنَّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُم مِّنْهَا كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; each is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. At 3:103 حُفْرَة is a physical hollow of fire with a brink and rescue from falling into it. At 79:10 the definite حَافِرَة occurs as the complement of 'be returned,' and the speakers question restoration after death; this selects a former state rather than an excavated hollow. Applying the physical-pit definition to the restoration construction would conflict with its prior-state requirement, so the latter is isolated as an exact lexical collision. Nominal pattern, definiteness, case, preposition, and clause syntax compose locally. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.