The Night Journey 17:5Quranic text
فَإِذَاجَآءَوَعْدُأُولَىٰهُمَابَعَثْنَاعَلَيْكُمْعِبَادًالَّنَآأُو۟لِىبَأْسٍشَدِيدٍفَجَاسُوا۟خِلَٰلَٱلدِّيَارِوَكَانَوَعْدًامَّفْعُولًا
Reference 17:5Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:5:15
وَكَانَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَانَ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَانَ
- Without tashkeel
- وكان
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكان
Position
Computed- Verse
- 17:5
- Word in verse
- 15
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:5:15
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and (it) was
- Transliteration
- wakāna
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- كَانَstem · V · ك و ن
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 17:5 — 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 the first of the two promises came true, We sent against you servants of Ours, possessing great might, and they ransacked your homes. It was a promise fulfilledSo when the time for the first of the two came, We roused against you slaves of Ours of great might who ravaged (your) country, and it was a threat performedSo when the menace for the first crime came to be inflicted, we sent against you our servants endued with terrible prowess; and they searched the inmost part of your abodes, and the menace was accomplishedAnd when the threat for the first (sin) of the two came, we sent over them servants of ours, endued with violence, and they searched inside your houses; and it was an accomplished threatSame form · 84 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَانَ appears 84 times in the corpus.
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- وَكَانَ4:17:17
- وَكَانَ4:30:9
- وَكَانَ4:39:12
- وَكَانَ4:47:25
- وَكَانَ4:85:17
- وَكَانَ4:92:57
- وَكَانَ4:96:5
- وَكَانَ4:99:7
- وَكَانَ4:100:28
- وَكَانَ4:104:19
- وَكَانَ4:108:17
Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كُنتُمْ2:23:2
- كُنتُمْ2:23:19
- وَكُنتُمْ2:28:4
- كُنتُمْ2:31:14
- كُنتُمْ2:33:21
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
- كَانَا2:36:6
- تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
- كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16
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