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Human body parts

Passages that mention various parts of the human body, physical features, and anatomical descriptions.

8
verses
8
Meccan
0
Medinan
0.92
cohesion

Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1. This is on the loose side, so the group holds together less tightly than most.

The verses

Closest to the group’s centre first.

  • Al-Muminoon 23:5✦ skyread

    وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ

    And they who guard their private parts

  • Al-Ma'aarij 70:29✦ skyread

    وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ

    And those who guard their private parts

  • Al-Balad 90:9✦ skyread

    وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

    And a tongue and two lips?

  • Al-Qalam 68:16✦ skyread

    سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِ

    We will brand him upon the snout.

  • An-Naazi'aat 79:11✦ skyread

    أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا نَّخِرَةً

    Even if we should be decayed bones?

  • As-Saaffaat 37:46✦ skyread

    بَيْضَآءَ لَذَّةٍ لِّلشَّٰرِبِينَ

    White and delicious to the drinkers;

  • At-Taariq 86:7✦ skyread

    يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ

    Emerging from between the backbone and the ribs.

  • Al-A'laa 87:2✦ skyread

    ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

    Who created and proportioned

Where it falls

These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Muminoon.

Al-Fatihathe long middleAn-Nas

A histogram of where this topic’s verses fall across the book in reading order.

How it sounds

Measured against the whole book, so the difference is what matters.

mercy1.00x the book

how strongly mercy sounds

judgment0.58x the book

how strongly judgment sounds

command0.00x the book

how much it instructs rather than describes

the hereafter0.97x the book

how much it points beyond this life

warmth1.16x the book

how positive the verse feels

intensity0.81x the book

how charged the language is

The pale line in each bar is the whole book’s average for that channel.

Next to this

The groups sitting closest to this one in meaning.

This group was not chosen in advance. All 6,236 verses were clustered by their meaning embeddings, and this is one of the 120 groups that fell out. Its name and description were written afterwards by a language model reading the verses above: they describe what is here, and are not categories drawn from tradition.

Verse text comes from the same sources as the rest of the site. This page shows where the Quran speaks; it does not issue rulings.