Quran glossary · draft

الهَيَمَان

wander

To roam from course to course without settled direction or restraint.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: هيم

Lemmas: يهيم

Forms: يَهِيمُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

26:225

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّهُمْ فِى كُلِّ وَادٍ يَهِيمُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both occurrences were reviewed. Form I depicts poets wandering through every valley, while the noun supplies an image of thirst-driven camels drinking. Unbounded compulsive movement links the two.