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
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.
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.