تلل

Core meaning

To lay a body down on the ground, in a single gesture that sets it in position.

Uses

1. تَلَّهُۥ → "to lay down" : Ibrahim's gesture over his son, at the moment of the trial.

   • «وَتَلَّهُۥ لِلْجَبِينِ» — "and he had laid him down on his temple" (37:103)

Evidence from the text

The word occurs only once, and the scene is enough to read it. The son has said "do what you are commanded" (37:102); both become true to God, the father lays him down on his forehead, and the call comes at once: the gesture stops there (37:103-105). The word says the laying down, nothing more.

See also

جبن (the forehead)