وَتَحْسَبُهُمْ أَيْقَاظًا وَهُمْ رُقُودٌ وَنُقَلِّبُهُمْ ذَاتَ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَذَاتَ ٱلشِّمَالِ وَكَلْبُهُم بَٰسِطٌ ذِرَاعَيْهِ بِٱلْوَصِيدِ لَوِ ٱطَّلَعْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَوَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرَارًا وَلَمُلِئْتَ مِنْهُمْ رُعْبًا
Quran glossary · draft
رقد
sleeping repose
Sustained repose expressed as a state and as its associated place.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: رقد
Lemmas: رقود · مرقد
Forms: رُقُودٌ · مَّرْقَدِ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَا مَنۢ بَعَثَنَا مِن مَّرْقَدِنَا هَٰذَا مَا وَعَدَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَصَدَقَ ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
رُقُود predicates the sleeping state of the cave companions despite their wakeful appearance. The place noun مَرْقَد identifies the location from which the dead are raised, construing their prior condition as repose. State and place are compositionally related.