وَيَٰقَوْمِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ إِنِّى عَٰمِلٌ سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن يَأْتِيهِ عَذَابٌ يُخْزِيهِ وَمَنْ هُوَ كَٰذِبٌ وَٱرْتَقِبُوٓا۟ إِنِّى مَعَكُمْ رَقِيبٌ
Quran glossary · draft
الترقب
watch expectantly
Sustain attention while waiting for a coming event, threat, or outcome.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 7
Roots: رقب
Lemmas: ارتقب · يترقب · مرتقب
Forms: ٱرْتَقِبْ · يَتَرَقَّبُ · ٱرْتَقِبُ · مُّرْتَقِبُونَ
Occurrence examples (7 of 7)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 7.
فَأَصْبَحَ فِى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ خَآئِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ فَإِذَا ٱلَّذِى ٱسْتَنصَرَهُۥ بِٱلْأَمْسِ يَسْتَصْرِخُهُۥ قَالَ لَهُۥ مُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّكَ لَغَوِىٌّ مُّبِينٌ
فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَآئِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِى مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
فَٱرْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٍ مُّبِينٍ
فَٱرْتَقِبْ إِنَّهُم مُّرْتَقِبُونَ
فَٱرْتَقِبْ إِنَّهُم مُّرْتَقِبُونَ
إِنَّا مُرْسِلُوا۟ ٱلنَّاقَةِ فِتْنَةً لَّهُمْ فَٱرْتَقِبْهُمْ وَٱصْطَبِرْ
Why this meaning was chosen
Reviewed all 24 frozen occurrences on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected records, compacted proposals, or failure candidates. Seven aligned witnesses were inspected at 11:93, 28:18, 47:4, 50:18, and 90:13. They preserve the paired await-watcher wording, wary waiting, direct neck reference, present watcher, and both nominal and verbal liberation constructions. The one-core test retains monitoring, heeding, and expectant waiting. The nine رقبة neck or person-by-neck segments are restricted as an anatomical and metonymic lexical collision.