Quran glossary · draft

سَابَقَ

race

Active Form III commands reciprocal competition toward a stated destination.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: سبق

Lemmas: سابق

Forms: سَابِقُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

57:21

سَابِقُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ مَغْفِرَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَجَنَّةٍ عَرْضُهَا كَعَرْضِ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ أُعِدَّتْ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ وَرُسُلِهِۦ ذَٰلِكَ فَضْلُ ٱللَّهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَن يَشَآءُ وَٱللَّهُ ذُو ٱلْفَضْلِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

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.