Quran glossary · draft

كَشَطَ complete-removal verb

strip away

To strip away is to remove a covering completely from what it had enclosed.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: كشط

Lemmas: كشطت

Forms: كُشِطَتْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

81:11

وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ

Where other meanings fail

is built up

81:11

وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ

Alternative: and when the sky is built up

Research rendering: and when the sky is stripped away

Construction reverses the committed complete-removal event in the cosmic transformation sequence.