قَدْ مَكَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى ٱللَّهُ بُنْيَٰنَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلسَّقْفُ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَأَتَىٰهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
السَّقْف
roof
A structure or canopy raised above and covering an enclosed lower space.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4
Roots: سقف
Lemmas: سقف
Forms: سَّقْفُ · سَقْفًا · سُقُفًا · سَّقْفِ
Occurrence examples (4 of 4)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.
وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ سَقْفًا مَّحْفُوظًا وَهُمْ عَنْ ءَايَٰتِهَا مُعْرِضُونَ
وَلَوْلَآ أَن يَكُونَ ٱلنَّاسُ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً لَّجَعَلْنَا لِمَن يَكْفُرُ بِٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ لِبُيُوتِهِمْ سُقُفًا مِّن فِضَّةٍ وَمَعَارِجَ عَلَيْهَا يَظْهَرُونَ
وَٱلسَّقْفِ ٱلْمَرْفُوعِ
Why this meaning was chosen
All four occurrences were reviewed. Literal building roofs, the protected sky as an overhead roof, and the raised roof in an oath all preserve one spanning-cover referent.