تور

Core meaning

One time, in a series of times: the return of the same movement.

Uses

1. تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ → "another time" : always with أُخْرَىٰ, to say that a movement happens again.

   • «وَمِنْهَا نُخْرِجُكُمْ تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ» — "and from it We shall bring you out yet another time" (20:55)
   • «أَمْ أَمِنتُمْ أَن يُعِيدَكُمْ فِيهِ تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ» — "Or are you sure He will not bring you back into it another time" (17:69)

Evidence from the text

Both occurrences join the word to the verb of return, أَعَادَ. Those whom God saved from the sea may be brought back into it "another time" (17:67-69); the human being, created from the earth, is returned to it, and God will bring him out of it "yet another time" (20:55). The word does not count: it says that the same movement happens again.

Distinctions

• مرر — "time": the time one counts (once, twice), whereas تَارَة names the renewal of a movement

See also

عود (to bring back)