Quran glossary · draft

وَتْر، تَتْرَا

unpaired singularity

An individual member stands without a paired counterpart, with repeated members able to proceed one at a time.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 2

Roots: وتر

Lemmas: تترا · وتر

Forms: تَتْرَا · وَتْرِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

23:44

ثُمَّ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلَنَا تَتْرَا كُلَّ مَا جَآءَ أُمَّةً رَّسُولُهَا كَذَّبُوهُ فَأَتْبَعْنَا بَعْضَهُم بَعْضًا وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَحَادِيثَ فَبُعْدًا لِّقَوْمٍ لَّا يُؤْمِنُونَ

89:3

وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ

Where other meanings fail

diminish deeds

23:44

ثُمَّ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلَنَا تَتْرَا كُلَّ مَا جَآءَ أُمَّةً رَّسُولُهَا كَذَّبُوهُ فَأَتْبَعْنَا بَعْضَهُم بَعْضًا وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَحَادِيثَ فَبُعْدًا لِّقَوْمٍ لَّا يُؤْمِنُونَ

Alternative: We sent Our messengers diminished in deeds

Research rendering: We sent Our messengers one after another

The adverbial modifies plural messengers and the continuation iterates each one in succession.