Quran glossary · draft

كَٱلطَّوْدِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

the great mountain

A great mountain-like mass against which the towering parts of the sea are measured.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: طود

Lemmas: طود

Forms: طَّوْدِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

26:63

فَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنِ ٱضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلْبَحْرَ فَٱنفَلَقَ فَكَانَ كُلُّ فِرْقٍ كَٱلطَّوْدِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the noun طَوْد at 26:63. When the sea splits for Moses, each separated part is compared to the target noun qualified by ٱلْعَظِيم. The parted water, comparison construction, and explicit greatness establish a huge upright mass. Because the noun occurs only as the comparator and is not independently described elsewhere in the Quran, the internal evidence does not fully decide whether English should lexicalize the physical referent specifically as mountain. The target is definite masculine genitive singular after comparative كَ. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.