Quran glossary · draft

تَلَّ placement verb

place down

Cause a patient to enter a lowered, laid-down bodily position; a result complement may specify the body's orientation.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: تلل

Lemmas: تل

Forms: تَلَّ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

37:103

فَلَمَّآ أَسْلَمَا وَتَلَّهُۥ لِلْجَبِينِ

Where other meanings fail

raised upright

37:103

فَلَمَّآ أَسْلَمَا وَتَلَّهُۥ لِلْجَبِينِ

Alternative: he raised him upright onto the forehead

Research rendering: he laid him face-down

Upward upright placement contradicts the explicit result orientation toward the patient's forehead.