Quran glossary · draft

تَلْقَف

swallow up

To consume an object rapidly and completely, removing its visible effect.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: لقف

Lemmas: تلقف

Forms: تَلْقَفُ · تَلْقَفْ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

7:117

وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنْ أَلْقِ عَصَاكَ فَإِذَا هِىَ تَلْقَفُ مَا يَأْفِكُونَ

20:69

وَأَلْقِ مَا فِى يَمِينِكَ تَلْقَفْ مَا صَنَعُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُوا۟ كَيْدُ سَٰحِرٍ وَلَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلسَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَىٰ

26:45

فَأَلْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ تَلْقَفُ مَا يَأْفِكُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences of تَلْقَف in parallel accounts of Moses's staff confronting the magicians. After Moses casts it, the feminine subject rapidly consumes what the magicians fabricate or falsely present. The disappearance of their work and the ensuing defeat establish decisive consumption rather than simple contact or collection. Indicative and jussive moods reflect sentence structure without lexical divergence. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.