What Was Mentioned Once in The Qur’anic Statement - A Linguistic Study
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https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.17.60.9Keywords:
Position, Language, Meaning, Quranic Statement, Expression, UsageAbstract
This research deals with words that occurred once in the Quranic statement, and they came to be linked to a specific event, or to describe the condition of a specific person, and thus they were appropriate in their usage; as they were restricted to mentioning him and his condition. These words of the statement were appropriate in their place and faithful to their meaning, and no other word could replace them, even if it was close to it. Their suitability to the meaning for which they were established would not have been apparent except by considering their position, and being guided by the guidance of their context and miraculous arrangement. On this basis, the position was one of the most important clues that reveal the meanings of the Quranic statement. I found work by scholars that dealt with this type of expression, such as (The Garden of Single Expressions in the Qur’an), (The Single Words in the Holy Qur’an), (The Expressions That Occurred Once in the Qur’an: A Lexicon and Rhetorical Study), (The Expressions That Occurred Once in the Holy Qur’an: A Linguistic Study and Lexicon), and (The Semantic Consolidation of Expressions That Occurred Once in the Holy Qur’an). However, it was difficult for me to find some of these studies, so I was not able to obtain them. Moreover, the studies that I found did not look at these expressions from a precise semantic and rhetorical perspective, nor did they link them to their systems and contexts. They did not find a reason for their occurrence only once in a specific context, or their explanation was not convincing in some instances. Moreover, the expressions that I found dealt with them in terms of meaning (event, self, and attribute), which made them completely different from the work of those who came before.
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