فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ قَالَ يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّٰدِمِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
غراب raven
raven
A bird that demonstrates digging the ground to cover a body.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: غرب
Lemmas: غراب
Forms: غُرَابًا · غُرَابِ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ قَالَ يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّٰدِمِينَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered all 19 occurrences. Sixteen occurrences are controlled by solar setting or explicit contrast with the east. The two raven nouns at 5:31 instead denote a bird digging in the ground, and the color term at 35:27 modifies black mountain bands. Those exact sets are recorded as frozen-root lexical collisions rather than being forced into the directional core.