The Bee 16:40Quranic text
إِنَّمَاقَوْلُنَالِشَىْءٍإِذَآأَرَدْنَٰهُأَننَّقُولَلَهُۥكُنفَيَكُونُ
Reference 16:40Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:40:3
لِشَىْءٍ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لِشَىْءٍ Quranic text
- Simple
- لِشَىْءٍ
- Without tashkeel
- لشىء
- Normalised (searchable)
- لشيء
Position
Computed- Surah
- 16 · The Bee
- Verse
- 16:40
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:40:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- to a thing
- Transliteration
- lishayin
- Root
- ش ي أsh-y-e
- Lemma
- شَىْء
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENstate: indefinitegender: M
Sub-word segments
- لِprefix · P
- شَىْءٍstem · N · ش ي أ
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 16:40 — 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 →
When We intend for something to happen, We say to it, “Be,” and it becomesAnd Our word unto a thing, when We intend it, is only that We say unto it: Be! and it isOur word to a thing when we will it, is but to say, "Be," and it isWe only say unto a thing we wish,' BE,' and it isSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ش ي أ · 519 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ش ي أ occurs 519 times across 29 distinct forms.
- شَآءَ2:20:15
- شَىْءٍ2:20:24
- شَىْءٍ2:29:18
- شِئْتُمَا2:35:11
- شَيْـًٔا2:48:8
- شِئْتُمْ2:58:9
- شَآءَ2:70:15
- يَشَآءُ2:90:18
- يَشَآءُ2:105:21
- شَىْءٍ2:106:18
- شَىْءٍ2:109:32
- شَىْءٍ2:113:6
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