معنى مفردة "هلك" في الآية 34 من سورة غافر من منظور اللغات السامية

Abstract EN

This article decided to describe a novel meaning for the word “halaka” in the holy verse “Joseph had indeed come to you before with clear proofs, but you did not cease to doubt what he had brought until he died, when you said: ‘God will not send a prophet after him.’ That is how God leads the waster, the septic astray” (Ghafir, 34).

Based on the common sense of the word “halaka”, two meaning for are described in the vocabulary and interpretation books, “to be killed” and “to pass out”.

In this article, first the exact meaning of the word was investigated based on the vocabulary and interpretation books.

Then, by checking Aramaic, Hebrew and Sorani languages dictionary and the Torah and the Gospel, the incipient and original meaning of the word was clarified in Semitic.

Comparing the meaning of word in the Semitic and its common meaning.

Authors concluded that the incipient meaning of the word is more appropriate in the context of this holy verse.