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