Quran glossary · draft

سفر

scroll bearers

Honored bearers or handlers of the purified scrolls.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: سفر

Lemmas: سفرة

Forms: سَفَرَةٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

80:15

بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

Eight occurrences denote travel, including أَسْفَار at 34:19. The identical plural at 62:5 is carried by a donkey and therefore names written volumes. Form IV describes dawn and faces becoming bright, while سَفَرَة names honored agents whose hands hold purified scrolls. The three non-travel clusters are retained as Quran-internally distinct lexical collisions.