وَقَالُوا۟ مَا هِىَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَآ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهْرُ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ
Quran glossary · draft
دهر
time
The extended course of time across ages.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: دهر
Lemmas: دهر
Forms: دَّهْرُ · دَّهْرِ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ حِينٌ مِّنَ ٱلدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْـًٔا مَّذْكُورًا
Why this meaning was chosen
One occurrence reports the unsupported claim that time alone destroys people; the other locates a period before the human was a mentioned thing within the course of time. Case remains compositional.