فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ
Quran glossary · draft
قدر قوسين مقياسا لشدة القرب
two-bow distance
The span of two bows serves as the stated measure of an exceptionally close interval.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: قوس
Lemmas: قوسين
Forms: قَوْسَيْنِ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Reviewed the sole frozen occurrence on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected meanings, compacted proposals, failure candidates, or aligned witness variants on the target row. Quran 53:8-9 describes a drawing near until the interval is قاب قوسين, then intensifies the closeness further. The dual noun functions as a familiar span measure, fixing two bow-lengths without requiring an identification of the encounter's participants in the lexical definition.