وَقَالَ لِلَّذِى ظَنَّ أَنَّهُۥ نَاجٍ مِّنْهُمَا ٱذْكُرْنِى عِندَ رَبِّكَ فَأَنسَىٰهُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ ذِكْرَ رَبِّهِۦ فَلَبِثَ فِى ٱلسِّجْنِ بِضْعَ سِنِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
بِضْعَ سِنِينَ
several
A bounded but unspecified plural number.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: بضع
Lemmas: بضع
Forms: بِضْعَ · بِضْعِ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
فِى بِضْعِ سِنِينَ لِلَّهِ ٱلْأَمْرُ مِن قَبْلُ وَمِنۢ بَعْدُ وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered all seven occurrences. The five بِضَاعَة targets designate a transactional holding: Joseph is concealed under that status, while his brothers' goods function as returned tender and later as inadequate tender. The two بِضْع targets quantify a bounded but unspecified span of years. These distributions support a set-apart-amount core with commercial and numerical branches. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. The Quran-internal evidence does not establish an exact numerical range for بِضْع, so that point remains for user review; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.