Quran glossary · draft

ركد

stationary

Stationary because the force producing movement has ceased.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ركد

Lemmas: رواكد

Forms: رَوَاكِدَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

42:33

إِن يَشَأْ يُسْكِنِ ٱلرِّيحَ فَيَظْلَلْنَ رَوَاكِدَ عَلَىٰ ظَهْرِهِۦٓ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَٰتٍ لِّكُلِّ صَبَّارٍ شَكُورٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole target is a plural circumstantial adjective describing ships. The condition is God stilling the wind, and the result is that the vessels remain on the sea's surface without propulsion.