The Bee 16:21Quranic text
أَمْوَٰتٌغَيْرُأَحْيَآءٍوَمَايَشْعُرُونَأَيَّانَيُبْعَثُونَ
Reference 16:21Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:21:3
أَحْيَآءٍ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَحْيَآءٍ Quranic text
- Simple
- أَحْيَآءٍ
- Without tashkeel
- أحياء
- Normalised (searchable)
- احياء
Position
Computed- Surah
- 16 · The Bee
- Verse
- 16:21
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:21:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- alive.
- Transliteration
- aḥyāin
- Root
- ح ي يhh-y-y
- Lemma
- حَيّ
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: plural
Sub-word segments
- أَحْيَآءٍstem · N · ح ي ي
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 16:21 — 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 →
They are dead, not alive; and they do not know when they will be resurrected(They are) dead, not living. And they know not when they will be raisedDead are they, lifeless! and they know not When they shall be raisedDead, not living, nor can they perceive! When shall they be raisedSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ح ي ي · 189 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ح ي ي occurs 189 times across 76 distinct forms.
- يَسْتَحْىِۦٓ2:26:4
- فَأَحْيَٰكُمْ2:28:6
- يُحْيِيكُمْ2:28:10
- وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ2:49:11
- يُحْىِ2:73:5
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ2:85:37
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ2:86:4
- حَيَوٰةٍ2:96:5
- أَحْيَآءٌ2:154:10
- فَأَحْيَا2:164:24
- حَيَوٰةٌ2:179:4
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ2:204:7
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