Quran glossary · draft

غَسَّاق

punitive liquid

A punitive substance made available for the inhabitants of Hell to taste.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: غسق

Lemmas: غساق

Forms: غَسَّاقٌ · غَسَّاقًا

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

38:57

هَٰذَا فَلْيَذُوقُوهُ حَمِيمٌ وَغَسَّاقٌ

78:25

إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All four occurrences were compared. غَسَقِ اللَّيْل anchors the canonical core in deep nightfall, and غَاسِق provisionally profiles a darkening presence when it enters. The two exact غَسَّاق segments instead denote something tasted in punishment beside boiling liquid. A consumable punitive substance contradicts a temporal darkness state and is isolated as an exact lexical collision. Its material identity and the narrower referent of غَاسِق remain explicit review questions. No aligned reading divergence is present.