Similar Syntactic Structures and Their Semantic Significations in the Holy Quran

Exerting efforts to understand the meaning parallel to the understanding of syntactic relations among parts of speech indicates semantic functions of syntactic structures as clearly as possible. In the Holy Quran, a diverse range of verses with semantic and syntactic structures can be observed, which may cause that the audience think that there is no significant difference in semantic significations of these verses. Applying different states of negation in nominal sentences in Arabic with “لیس”, “particles similar to لیس", and “لانفی؝نس” are among these structures and interpretations which in spite of their apparent similarity, have different semantic significations. Using analytical and comparative approach to the context and interpretation of verses in which these particles are used, the present study tries to show that differences in these syntactic structures are not merely due to changes and stylistic variations in interpretation, but each of them has been used for fulfilling a purpose.