Quran glossary · draft

سُوَاع

Suwa

The named object of worship placed between Wadd and Yaghuth in Noah's people's list.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: سوع

Lemmas: سواع

Forms: سُوَاعًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

71:23

وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا

Where other meanings fail

time interval

71:23

وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا

Alternative: do not abandon Wadd, nor a time interval, nor Yaghuth

Research rendering: do not abandon Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghuth

The proper noun occupies a coordinated name slot among objects of worship and has no temporal measure.