Effect of Quranic Context on Changing Word Meanings

Abstract

This paper deals with the concept of meaning in language in lexicons and books of rhetoric's … etc , the relation between the word and the meaning and phenomena of semantic development . Then , the researcher tackles change of meaning in the Holy Quran on the level of the synonyms , an tonomies and particles of meaning .The researcher also highlights context and its effect changing the word meaning because the meanings of the words are associated with the context in which they occur . As contexts increase , we have more word meanings . The many meaning entries in dictionaries of one word are actually contextual meanings .The researcher chose the Quranic text for application in this paper because this text is safe of plagiarism and errors and employed to serve the rhetoric's in the holy Quran .