Quran glossary · draft

إشارة زكريا بدل الكلام

speech-replacing gesture

Zechariah can address the people only through a nonverbal sign during the appointed period.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: رمز

Lemmas: رمز

Forms: رَمْزًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

3:41

قَالَ رَبِّ ٱجْعَل لِّىٓ ءَايَةً قَالَ ءَايَتُكَ أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ ٱلنَّاسَ ثَلَٰثَةَ أَيَّامٍ إِلَّا رَمْزًا وَٱذْكُر رَّبَّكَ كَثِيرًا وَسَبِّحْ بِٱلْعَشِىِّ وَٱلْإِبْكَٰرِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Reviewed the sole frozen occurrence on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected meanings, compacted proposals, failure candidates, or aligned witness variants on the target row. In 3:41, Zechariah's sign is that he will not speak to people for three days except رمزًا. The explicit exclusion from speaking establishes an alternative nonverbal communicative act; the parallel sign in 19:10-11 likewise culminates in communication to his people without ordinary speech.