Quran glossary · draft

وَغَلَّقَتِ ٱلْأَبْوَٰبَ

shut securely

To close the doors thoroughly against access.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: غلق

Lemmas: غلقت

Forms: غَلَّقَتِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

12:23

وَرَٰوَدَتْهُ ٱلَّتِى هُوَ فِى بَيْتِهَا عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ وَغَلَّقَتِ ٱلْأَبْوَٰبَ وَقَالَتْ هَيْتَ لَكَ قَالَ مَعَاذَ ٱللَّهِ إِنَّهُۥ رَبِّىٓ أَحْسَنَ مَثْوَاىَ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of Form II غَلَّقَت at 12:23. The woman in whose house Joseph lives performs the action upon the doors before directly inviting him, creating a private enclosed setting that he refuses. The plural doors, transitive action, and narrative purpose establish closing them firmly; Form II supports thoroughness across the set without requiring an unattested locking mechanism. The target is third-person feminine singular perfect. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.