Quran glossary · draft

جَاسُوا خِلَالَ ٱلدِّيَارِ

range through

To penetrate and move throughout the interior spaces of a settled area.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: جوس

Lemmas: جاس

Forms: جَاسُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

17:5

فَإِذَا جَآءَ وَعْدُ أُولَىٰهُمَا بَعَثْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ عِبَادًا لَّنَآ أُو۟لِى بَأْسٍ شَدِيدٍ فَجَاسُوا۟ خِلَٰلَ ٱلدِّيَارِ وَكَانَ وَعْدًا مَّفْعُولًا

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of Form I جَاسُوا at 17:5. When the first promised punishment arrives, servants of severe might are sent against the addressees and range through the midst of the dwellings. Military force, the through-the-dwellings complement, and fulfillment of punishment establish invasive movement throughout an inhabited area. The target is third-person masculine plural perfect. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.