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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:96:4

ٱلْبَشِيرُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْبَشِيرُ Quranic text
Simple
الْبَشِيرُ
Without tashkeel
ٱلبشير
Normalised (searchable)
البشير

Position

Computed
Surah
12 · Joseph
Verse
12:96
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:96:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
the bearer of glad tidings,
Transliteration
l-bashīru
Root
ب ش رb-sh-r
Lemma
بَشِير
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. بَشِيرُstem · N · ب ش ر

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:96 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

Then, when the bearer of good news arrived, he laid it over his face, and he regained his sight. He said, “Did I not say to you that I know from God what you do not know?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then, when the bearer of glad tidings came, he laid it on his face and he became a seer once more. He said: Said I not unto you that I know from Allah that which ye know not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when the bearer of good tidings came, he cast it on his face, and Jacob's eyesight returned." Then he said, "Did I not tell you that I knew from God what ye knew not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when the herald of glad tidings came he threw it on his face, and he was restored to sight. Said he, 'Did I not tell you that I know from God that of which ye know not
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ب ش ر · 123 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب ش ر occurs 123 times across 56 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب ش ر →

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