فَلَمَّا جَنَّ عَلَيْهِ ٱلَّيْلُ رَءَا كَوْكَبًا قَالَ هَٰذَا رَبِّى فَلَمَّآ أَفَلَ قَالَ لَآ أُحِبُّ ٱلْـَٔافِلِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
أَفَلَ
set from view
To cease being visible after celestial appearance.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: أفل
Lemmas: أفل
Forms: أَفَلَ · أَفَلَتْ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
فَلَمَّا رَءَا ٱلْقَمَرَ بَازِغًا قَالَ هَٰذَا رَبِّى فَلَمَّآ أَفَلَ قَالَ لَئِن لَّمْ يَهْدِنِى رَبِّى لَأَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلضَّآلِّينَ
فَلَمَّا رَءَا ٱلشَّمْسَ بَازِغَةً قَالَ هَٰذَا رَبِّى هَٰذَآ أَكْبَرُ فَلَمَّآ أَفَلَتْ قَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى بَرِىٓءٌ مِّمَّا تُشْرِكُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered all four occurrences in the continuous 6:76-78 observation sequence. A star, the moon, and the sun each first appear visibly and then undergo the Form I event; the active participle generalizes the same property to bodies that do so. The repeated contrast with visible rising anchors disappearance from view rather than destruction. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. No protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.