Quran glossary · draft

الهِيم

thirst-maddened camels

Camels driven to drink voraciously by unrelieved thirst.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: هيم

Lemmas: هيم

Forms: هِيمِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

56:55

فَشَٰرِبُونَ شُرْبَ ٱلْهِيمِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both occurrences were reviewed. Form I depicts poets wandering through every valley, while the noun supplies an image of thirst-driven camels drinking. Unbounded compulsive movement links the two.