Quran glossary · draft

سَابِق

preceding

The active participle characterizes a person, group, or cycle by occupying the ahead position.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 8

Roots: سبق

Lemmas: سابق · سابقة

Forms: سَّٰبِقُونَ · سَٰبِقُونَ · سَٰبِقِينَ · سَابِقٌۢ · سَابِقُ · سَّٰبِقَٰتِ

Occurrence examples (8 of 8)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 8.

9:100

وَٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُهَٰجِرِينَ وَٱلْأَنصَارِ وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّبَعُوهُم بِإِحْسَٰنٍ رَّضِىَ ٱللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا۟ عَنْهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُمْ جَنَّٰتٍ تَجْرِى تَحْتَهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَآ أَبَدًا ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْفَوْزُ ٱلْعَظِيمُ

23:61

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُسَٰرِعُونَ فِى ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ وَهُمْ لَهَا سَٰبِقُونَ

29:39

وَقَٰرُونَ وَفِرْعَوْنَ وَهَٰمَٰنَ وَلَقَدْ جَآءَهُم مُّوسَىٰ بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ سَٰبِقِينَ

35:32

ثُمَّ أَوْرَثْنَا ٱلْكِتَٰبَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱصْطَفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِنَا فَمِنْهُمْ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِۦ وَمِنْهُم مُّقْتَصِدٌ وَمِنْهُمْ سَابِقٌۢ بِٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلْفَضْلُ ٱلْكَبِيرُ

36:40

لَا ٱلشَّمْسُ يَنۢبَغِى لَهَآ أَن تُدْرِكَ ٱلْقَمَرَ وَلَا ٱلَّيْلُ سَابِقُ ٱلنَّهَارِ وَكُلٌّ فِى فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ

56:10

وَٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ

56:10

وَٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ

79:4

فَٱلسَّٰبِقَٰتِ سَبْقًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All 37 family occurrences were reviewed on one page, with no protected segments or compacted candidates. Quran 15:5 and 23:43 anchor temporal precedence against an appointed term; 12:25 anchors two participants racing to a door; 21:27 negates speaking ahead of God; and 36:40 negates night getting ahead of day. The same earlier-position core covers prior words, peoples, deeds, movement, escape, and ordered cycles. The exact target is partitioned by finite, reciprocal, participial, passive, and event morphology, with no witness-sensitive context or unresolved challenge.