Quran glossary · draft

ٱلْوَدْق

rain

Water descending from clouds as precipitation.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: ودق

Lemmas: ودق

Forms: وَدْقَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

24:43

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُزْجِى سَحَابًا ثُمَّ يُؤَلِّفُ بَيْنَهُۥ ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُۥ رُكَامًا فَتَرَى ٱلْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلَٰلِهِۦ وَيُنَزِّلُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مِن جِبَالٍ فِيهَا مِنۢ بَرَدٍ فَيُصِيبُ بِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَصْرِفُهُۥ عَن مَّن يَشَآءُ يَكَادُ سَنَا بَرْقِهِۦ يَذْهَبُ بِٱلْأَبْصَٰرِ

30:48

ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى يُرْسِلُ ٱلرِّيَٰحَ فَتُثِيرُ سَحَابًا فَيَبْسُطُهُۥ فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ يَشَآءُ وَيَجْعَلُهُۥ كِسَفًا فَتَرَى ٱلْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلَٰلِهِۦ فَإِذَآ أَصَابَ بِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦٓ إِذَا هُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered both occurrences of وَدْق in closely parallel cloud descriptions. God drives, joins, and piles clouds in 24:43 and sends winds, spreads, and fragments clouds in 30:48; in each case the rain is seen emerging through them. The second passage adds that when it reaches God's servants they rejoice, distinguishing the falling water from the cloud itself. Both targets share the same definite accusative form and clause. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.