Semantic study of the term

In research of the Quranic attitude towards the notion of perception, we come across with a vast semantic field in which many Quranic concepts are linked to each other. One of the fundamental concepts in this field is "Tadabur" or contemplation. In addition to many Quranic verses in which the necessity of contemplation for human beings has been emphasized with different terms, there are specially four verses where the term "Tadabur" and its derivatives are used. In these verses the act of contemplation has been considered as a task or even the aim of revealing Quran. This research is aimed at discovering the meaning of this term using semantic approach. The meaning, however, has received much attention by the Muslim exegetes in the past and especially in recent century. For this purpose, after reviewing the verses including the term and paying special attention to the exegetical literature, a brief image of the meaning of the word and its position in Quran will be presented. Later, following the structural semantic and by analyzing the syntagmatic and paradigmatic terms for "Tadabur" in Quran we will try to extract the conceptual elements of this Quranic term.