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“they were”

59 occurrences across 1 distinct root carry the English gloss “they were”. This is a computed grouping of a word-level gloss from the Quranic Arabic Corpus — an external annotation, not a translation of any verse, and never Quranic text. Where more than one root appears below, those are different Arabic words rendered the same way in English.

Merged surface forms

4 verbatim glosses from the corpus differ only by punctuation or bracketed helpers and are grouped here; each is shown exactly as written.

  • “they were”· 51
  • “They were”· 4
  • “they [were]”· 3
  • “they were,”· 1