لَّقَدْ كَفَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ثَالِثُ ثَلَٰثَةٍ وَمَا مِنْ إِلَٰهٍ إِلَّآ إِلَٰهٌ وَٰحِدٌ وَإِن لَّمْ يَنتَهُوا۟ عَمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَيَمَسَّنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
Quran glossary · draft
ثَالِث
third
The ordinal identifies the member occupying position three in an ordered set.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: ثلث
Lemmas: ثالث · ثالثة
Forms: ثَالِثُ · ثَالِثٍ · ثَّالِثَةَ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَآ إِلَيْهِمُ ٱثْنَيْنِ فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَعَزَّزْنَا بِثَالِثٍ فَقَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّآ إِلَيْكُم مُّرْسَلُونَ
وَمَنَوٰةَ ٱلثَّالِثَةَ ٱلْأُخْرَىٰٓ
Why this meaning was chosen
All 32 family occurrences were reviewed on one page, with no protected segments or compacted candidates. Quran 7:142 anchors thirty by adding ten to reach forty; Quran 36:14 anchors the ordinal by adding a third messenger after two; and Quran 73:20 coordinates two thirds and one third with one half as measured portions of the night. The remaining cardinal and distributive occurrences consistently count entities, durations, groups, branches, or ordered members. The exact target is partitioned by lemma, numerical function, and number morphology, with no witness-sensitive context or unresolved challenge.