وَلِلَّهِ ٱلْمَشْرِقُ وَٱلْمَغْرِبُ فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا۟ فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ ٱللَّهِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ
Quran glossary · draft
ثَمَّ
there
A locative adverb pointing to a place identified by the surrounding discourse.
Source histories
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 4
Lemmas: ثم
Forms: ثَمَّ
Occurrence examples (4 of 4)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.
وَأَزْلَفْنَا ثَمَّ ٱلْـَٔاخَرِينَ
وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ ثَمَّ رَأَيْتَ نَعِيمًا وَمُلْكًا كَبِيرًا
مُّطَاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ
Where other meanings fail
then
2:115
وَلِلَّهِ ٱلْمَشْرِقُ وَٱلْمَغْرِبُ فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا۟ فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ ٱللَّهِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ
Alternative: whichever way you turn, then is the face of God
Research rendering: whichever way you turn, there is the face of God
The facing construction calls for a deictic place; no second ordered event is introduced.