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