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.

45:24

وَقَالُوا۟ مَا هِىَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَآ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهْرُ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ

76:1

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.