Quran glossary · draft

نحر

sacrifice

To sacrifice is to perform an act of slaughter in devotion to one's Lord.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نحر

Lemmas: انحر

Forms: ٱنْحَرْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

108:2

فَصَلِّ لِرَبِّكَ وَٱنْحَرْ

Where other meanings fail

pray

108:2

فَصَلِّ لِرَبِّكَ وَٱنْحَرْ

Alternative: pray to your Lord and pray

Research rendering: pray to your Lord and sacrifice

Prayer is already expressed by the first imperative, so the coordinated second verb must contribute a distinct devotional act.

slaughter a named animal

108:2

فَصَلِّ لِرَبِّكَ وَٱنْحَرْ

Alternative: pray to your Lord and slaughter the named animal

Research rendering: pray to your Lord and sacrifice

The verse contains no animal patient or species expression, so naming one exceeds the frozen evidence.