Quran glossary · draft

مَسَخْ

transform

To transform people in place so that they can neither proceed nor return.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: مسخ

Lemmas: مسخ

Forms: مَسَخْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

36:67

وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَمَسَخْنَٰهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِهِمْ فَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ مُضِيًّا وَلَا يَرْجِعُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The single family occurrence was reviewed on one page. In the conditional warning, transformation in place would leave the affected people unable either to advance or to return.