The Night Journey 17:61Quranic text
وَإِذْقُلْنَالِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِٱسْجُدُوا۟لِـَٔادَمَفَسَجَدُوٓا۟إِلَّآإِبْلِيسَقَالَءَأَسْجُدُلِمَنْخَلَقْتَطِينًا
Reference 17:61Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:61:3
لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ Quranic text
- Simple
- لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ
- Without tashkeel
- للملئكة
- Normalised (searchable)
- للملئكه
Position
Computed- Verse
- 17:61
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:61:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- to the Angels,
- Transliteration
- lil'malāikati
- Root
- م ل كm-l-k
- Lemma
- مَلَك
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENgender: Mnumber: plural
Sub-word segments
- لِprefix · P
- لْprefix · DET
- مَلَٰٓئِكَةِstem · N · م ل ك
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 17:61 — 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 said to the angels, “Bow down before Adam,” they bowed down, except for Satan. He said, “Shall I bow down before someone You created from mud?”And when We said unto the angels: Fall down prostrate before Adam and they fell prostrate all save Iblis, he said: Shall I fall prostrate before that which Thou hast created of clayAnd when we said to the Angels, "Prostrate yourselves before Adam:" and they all prostrated them, save Eblis. "What!" said he, "shall I bow me before him whom thou hast created of clayAnd when we said to the angels, ' Adore Adam;' and they adored, save Iblis, who said, ' Am I to adore one whom Thou hast created out of claySame form · 9 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ appears 9 times in the corpus.
Root م ل ك · 206 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root م ل ك occurs 206 times across 59 distinct forms.
- مَٰلِكِ1:4:1
- لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ2:30:4
- ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ2:31:8
- لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ2:34:3
- وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتِهِۦ2:98:5
- مُلْكِ2:102:6
- ٱلْمَلَكَيْنِ2:102:20
- مُلْكُ2:107:6
- وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ2:161:11
- وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ2:177:16
- وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ2:210:11
- مَلِكًا2:246:17
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