فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ
Quran glossary · draft
قوب
span
A measure of spatial separation expressed by a bow's extent.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: قوب
Lemmas: قاب
Forms: قَابَ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
The sole noun heads a distance expression quantified by two bows and then tightened by the statement of greater nearness. The numeric and comparative material stays compositional outside the noun's single span core.