Quran glossary · draft

عَقَرَ

strike down

The form I verb denotes fatally disabling the she-camel.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 5

Roots: عقر

Lemmas: عقر

Forms: عَقَرُ · عَقَرَ

Occurrence examples (5 of 5)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 5.

7:77

فَعَقَرُوا۟ ٱلنَّاقَةَ وَعَتَوْا۟ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهِمْ وَقَالُوا۟ يَٰصَٰلِحُ ٱئْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ

11:65

فَعَقَرُوهَا فَقَالَ تَمَتَّعُوا۟ فِى دَارِكُمْ ثَلَٰثَةَ أَيَّامٍ ذَٰلِكَ وَعْدٌ غَيْرُ مَكْذُوبٍ

26:157

فَعَقَرُوهَا فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ نَٰدِمِينَ

54:29

فَنَادَوْا۟ صَاحِبَهُمْ فَتَعَاطَىٰ فَعَقَرَ

91:14

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنۢبِهِمْ فَسَوَّىٰهَا

Why this meaning was chosen

All eight family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Five form I perfect verbs describe Thamud's fatal disabling of the she-camel; person, number, object suffix, and narrative subject compose locally. Three active participles characterize Zechariah's wife as unable to bear a child, with case and predication composed morphologically. The contexts select physical striking down versus generative incapacity, but both instantiate disabling a living capacity at its source; no Quran-internal contradiction requires a collision branch. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.