وتن

Core meaning

The main artery that carries life: to sever it is to cut life off at its source.

Uses

1. ٱلْوَتِين → "the aorta" : the vital artery, named in the hypothesis of a messenger who would forge a saying.

   • «ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ ٱلْوَتِينَ» — "then cut his aorta" (69:46)

Evidence from the text

The single use (69:46) completes an unreal condition: had the messenger forged a saying upon God, he would have been seized by the right hand, then his aorta would have been severed. The text names the artery whose severing leaves no survival; the next verse adds that none could have shielded him. The sanction set out is total, and the hypothesis closes upon itself.

See also

قطع (the act that severs the aorta) · حجز (none stands between the guilty one and the sanction)