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.

53:9

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ

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.