جَمِيعَall

Example sentences

• وَمَنْ حَسُنَ عَقْلُهُ غَطَّى ذَلِكَ جَمِيعَ ذُنُوبِهِ

  Whoever's judgment is sound, that covers all his sins.

  جَمِيعَ — all. A quantifier 'all/the whole of' in the accusative as the object of 'covers', heading a possessive pairing with 'his sins' that follows. The accusative marks it as the thing covered. The two nouns set together give 'all of his sins'.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• قَالَ عَيْنَيْكَ أَفْقِئْهُمَا أَوْ جَمِيعَ مَا تَمْلِكُ

  He said, "Gouge out your two eyes, or everything you own."

  جَمِيع — all. A noun meaning 'all/the whole', set in the object form as the second alternative to give up. It governs the clause after it in an 'of' sense, 'all of what you own'. Arabic uses this quantifier as a head noun that the following relative clause completes.

  From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →