جفن

Core meaning

Large vessels: basins vast enough to be compared to reservoirs.

Uses

1. جِفَانٍۢ → "basins" : one of the works made for Sulayman.

   • «وَجِفَانٍۢ كَٱلْجَوَابِ» — "basins like great reservoirs" (34:13)

Evidence from the text

The word occurs only once, and the verse gives its measure: these basins are like great reservoirs, and they are named between the statues and cauldrons "firmly anchored" (34:13). The list counts only massive works; the basin takes in it the size of a reservoir.

See also

جوب (the reservoirs) · قدر (the cauldrons)