Quran glossary · draft

شوي

sear

To sear the body's exposed outer flesh with intense heat.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: شوي

Lemmas: يشوي · شوى

Forms: يَشْوِى · شَّوَىٰ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

18:29

وَقُلِ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيُؤْمِن وَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيَكْفُرْ إِنَّآ أَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ نَارًا أَحَاطَ بِهِمْ سُرَادِقُهَا وَإِن يَسْتَغِيثُوا۟ يُغَاثُوا۟ بِمَآءٍ كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَشْوِى ٱلْوُجُوهَ بِئْسَ ٱلشَّرَابُ وَسَآءَتْ مُرْتَفَقًا

70:16

نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both occurrences were inspected together. A molten drink sears faces, while the blaze strips away exposed outer flesh. The verb names the heat event and the noun names its bodily target.