The Cave 18:64Quranic text
قَالَذَٰلِكَمَاكُنَّانَبْغِفَٱرْتَدَّاعَلَىٰٓءَاثَارِهِمَاقَصَصًا
Reference 18:64quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:64:7Sub-word segments
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قَالَذَٰلِكَمَاكُنَّانَبْغِفَٱرْتَدَّاعَلَىٰٓءَاثَارِهِمَاقَصَصًا
Reference 18:64These translations render verse 18:64 — 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 →
He said, “This is what we were seeking.” And so they turned back retracing their stepsHe said: This is that which we have been seeking. So they retraced their steps againHe said, "It is this we were in quest of." And they both went back retracing their footstepsSaid he, 'This is what we were searching for.' So they turned back upon their footsteps, following them upThis exact written form عَلَىٰٓ appears 81 times in the corpus.
No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.