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.

12:42

وَقَالَ لِلَّذِى ظَنَّ أَنَّهُۥ نَاجٍ مِّنْهُمَا ٱذْكُرْنِى عِندَ رَبِّكَ فَأَنسَىٰهُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ ذِكْرَ رَبِّهِۦ فَلَبِثَ فِى ٱلسِّجْنِ بِضْعَ سِنِينَ

30:4

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.