وَإِن كَانَ كَبُرَ عَلَيْكَ إِعْرَاضُهُمْ فَإِنِ ٱسْتَطَعْتَ أَن تَبْتَغِىَ نَفَقًا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ أَوْ سُلَّمًا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَتَأْتِيَهُم بِـَٔايَةٍ وَلَوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَجَمَعَهُمْ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْجَٰهِلِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
نفق
tunnel
A passage running through the ground.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: نفق
Lemmas: نفق
Forms: نَفَقًا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
The protected Form IV verbs were inspected but not modified. At 2:270 a protected finite أنفقتم directly governs the assignable noun نفقة, and 9:121 repeats the verb-noun pair, fixing expenditure as the canonical family. The hypocrisy forms instead denote people whose outward claims contradict their inward state, made explicit at 63:1, while 6:35 places نفق in the earth opposite a ladder. No Quran-internal bridge licenses forcing either set into expenditure, so both are exact collision branches.