The Cave 18:26Quranic text
قُلِٱللَّهُأَعْلَمُبِمَالَبِثُوا۟لَهُۥغَيْبُٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِوَٱلْأَرْضِأَبْصِرْبِهِۦوَأَسْمِعْمَالَهُممِّندُونِهِۦمِنوَلِىٍّوَلَايُشْرِكُفِىحُكْمِهِۦٓأَحَدًا
Reference 18:26Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:26:5
لَبِثُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لَبِثُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- لَبِثُوا
- Without tashkeel
- لبثوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- لبثوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 18 · The Cave
- Verse
- 18:26
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:26:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- they remained.
- Transliteration
- labithū
- Root
- ل ب ثl-b-th
- Lemma
- لَبِثَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- لَبِثُstem · V · ل ب ث
- وا۟suffix · 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 18:26 — 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 →
Say, “God knows best how long they stayed.” His is the mystery of the heavens and the earth. By Him you see and hear. They have no guardian apart from Him, and He shares His Sovereignty with no oneSay: Allah is Best Aware how long they tarried. His is the Invisible of the heavens and the earth. How clear of sight is He and keen of hearing! They have no protecting friend beside Him, and He maketh none to share in His governmentSAY: God best knoweth how long they tarried: With Him are the secrets of the Heavens and of the Earth: Look thou and hearken unto Him alone. Man hath no guardian but Him, and none may bear part in his judgmentsSay, 'God knows best of their tarrying. His are the unseen things of the heavens and the earth - He can see! and hear!' They have no patron beside Him, nor does He let any one share in His judgmentSame form · 3 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لَبِثُوا۟ appears 3 times in the corpus.
Root ل ب ث · 31 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ل ب ث occurs 31 times across 18 distinct forms.
- لَبِثْتَ2:259:25
- لَبِثْتُ2:259:27
- لَّبِثْتَ2:259:34
- لَبِثْتُ10:16:12
- يَلْبَثُوٓا۟10:45:5
- لَبِثَ11:69:11
- فَلَبِثَ12:42:14
- لَّبِثْتُمْ17:52:7
- يَلْبَثُونَ17:76:10
- لَبِثُوٓا۟18:12:8
- لَبِثْتُمْ18:19:9
- لَبِثْنَا18:19:11
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