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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:28:17

بِمَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
بِمَا Quranic text
Simple
بِمَا
Without tashkeel
بما
Normalised (searchable)
بما

Position

Computed
Verse
16:28
Word in verse
17
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:28:17

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
of what
Transliteration
bimā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Relative pronoun (REL)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. بِprefix · P
  2. مَاstem · REL

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 16:28 — 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 →

Those wronging their souls while the angels are taking them away—they will propose peace: “We did no wrong.” Yes you did. God is aware of what you used to do.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Whom the angels cause to die while they are wronging themselves. Then will they make full submission (saying): We used not to do any wrong. Nay! Surely Allah is Knower of what ye used to do
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
The sinners against their own souls whom the angels shall cause to die will proffer the submission, "No evil have we done." Nay! God knoweth what ye have wrought
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Those whom the angels took away were wronging themselves; then they offered peace: 'We have done no evil.' - 'Yea! verily, God knows what ye did
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 253 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بِمَا appears 253 times in the corpus.

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