«وَيَعْلَمُ مَا جَرَحْتُمْ بِالنَّهَارِ»
And He knows what you earn or do during the day.
The familiar near association of jaraha is wounding, while the intended sense in this context is earning or committing deeds. The example highlights the difference between an immediately suggested sense and the meaning selected by the sentence as a whole.
Rendering the expression simply as physical wounding would distort the verse. Context must guide the rhetorical and semantic analysis.
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Ilm al-Badiʿ: The First Nine Semantic Rhetorical Devices
«وَيَعْلَمُ مَا جَرَحْتُمْ بِالنَّهَارِ»
And He knows what you earn or do during the day.
The familiar near association of jaraha is wounding, while the intended sense in this context is earning or committing deeds. The example highlights the difference between an immediately suggested sense and the meaning selected by the sentence as a whole.
Rendering the expression simply as physical wounding would distort the verse. Context must guide the rhetorical and semantic analysis.