Quran glossary · draft

جرع

sip

To take a drink in successive, effortful mouthfuls.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: جرع

Lemmas: يتجرع

Forms: يَتَجَرَّعُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

14:17

يَتَجَرَّعُهُۥ وَلَا يَكَادُ يُسِيغُهُۥ وَيَأْتِيهِ ٱلْمَوْتُ مِن كُلِّ مَكَانٍ وَمَا هُوَ بِمَيِّتٍ وَمِن وَرَآئِهِۦ عَذَابٌ غَلِيظٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole form V imperfect describes a punished person taking the offered liquid while scarcely able to swallow it. The iterative form and the explicit swallowing difficulty support successive effortful intake as one compositional event.