Quran glossary · draft

حَثِيثًا

swiftly

With urgent speed in a continuing pursuit.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: حثث

Lemmas: حثيث

Forms: حَثِيثًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

7:54

إِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ فِى سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْعَرْشِ يُغْشِى ٱلَّيْلَ ٱلنَّهَارَ يَطْلُبُهُۥ حَثِيثًا وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ وَٱلنُّجُومَ مُسَخَّرَٰتٍۭ بِأَمْرِهِۦٓ أَلَا لَهُ ٱلْخَلْقُ وَٱلْأَمْرُ تَبَارَكَ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the adjective حَثِيث at 7:54. Night covers day while pursuing it حَثِيثًا within the ordered alternation governed by the creator of the heavens, earth, sun, moon, and stars. The pursuit construction and continuous cosmic succession establish urgent swiftness. The accusative adjective functions adverbially in this context. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.