The Night Journey 17:31Quranic text
وَلَاتَقْتُلُوٓا۟أَوْلَٰدَكُمْخَشْيَةَإِمْلَٰقٍنَّحْنُنَرْزُقُهُمْوَإِيَّاكُمْإِنَّقَتْلَهُمْكَانَخِطْـًٔاكَبِيرًا
Reference 17:31Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:31:10
قَتْلَهُمْ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- قَتْلَهُمْ Quranic text
- Simple
- قَتْلَهُمْ
- Without tashkeel
- قتلهم
- Normalised (searchable)
- قتلهم
Position
Computed- Verse
- 17:31
- Word in verse
- 10
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:31:10
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- their killing
- Transliteration
- qatlahum
- Root
- ق ت لq-t-l
- Lemma
- قَتْل
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCgender: Mderivation: VNverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- قَتْلَstem · N · ق ت ل
- هُمْsuffix · PRON
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 17:31 — 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 →
And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them, and for you. Killing them is a grave sinSlay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sinKill not your children for fear of want: for them and for you will we provide. Verily, the killing them is a great wickednessAnd slay not your children for fear of poverty; we will provide for them; beware! for to slay them is ever a great sinSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ق ت ل · 170 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ق ت ل occurs 170 times across 108 distinct forms.
- فَٱقْتُلُوٓا۟2:54:14
- وَيَقْتُلُونَ2:61:51
- قَتَلْتُمْ2:72:2
- تَقْتُلُونَ2:85:4
- تَقْتُلُونَ2:87:28
- تَقْتُلُونَ2:91:23
- يُقْتَلُ2:154:4
- ٱلْقَتْلَى2:178:8
- وَقَٰتِلُوا۟2:190:1
- يُقَٰتِلُونَكُمْ2:190:6
- وَٱقْتُلُوهُمْ2:191:1
- ٱلْقَتْلِ2:191:11
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