The Cave 18:74Quranic text
فَٱنطَلَقَاحَتَّىٰٓإِذَالَقِيَاغُلَٰمًافَقَتَلَهُۥقَالَأَقَتَلْتَنَفْسًازَكِيَّةًۢبِغَيْرِنَفْسٍلَّقَدْجِئْتَشَيْـًٔانُّكْرًا
Reference 18:74Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:74:12
نَفْسٍ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- نَفْسٍ Quranic text
- Simple
- نَفْسٍ
- Without tashkeel
- نفس
- Normalised (searchable)
- نفس
Position
Computed- Surah
- 18 · The Cave
- Verse
- 18:74
- Word in verse
- 12
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:74:12
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- a soul?
- Transliteration
- nafsin
- Root
- ن ف سn-f-s
- Lemma
- نَفْس
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENstate: indefinitegender: Fnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- نَفْسٍstem · N · ن ف س
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 18:74 — 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 →
Then they set out. Until, when they encountered a boy, he killed him. He said, “Did you kill a pure soul, who killed no one? You have done something terrible.”So they twain journeyed on till, when they met a lad, he slew him. (Moses) said: What! Hast thou slain an innocent soul who hath slain no man? Verily thou hast done a horrid thingThen went they on till they met a youth, and he slew him. Said Moses, "Hast thou slain him who is free from guilt of blood? Now hast thou wrought a grievous thingSo they set out until they met a boy, and he killed him. And he (Moses) said, 'Hast thou killed a pure person without (his killing) a person? thou hast produced an unheard-of thingSame form · 20 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form نَفْسٍ appears 20 times in the corpus.
- نَفْسٍ2:281:10
- نَفْسٍ3:25:10
- نَفْسٍ3:30:4
- نَفْسٍ3:161:16
- نَفْسٍ3:185:2
- نَفْسٍ5:32:13
- نَفْسٍ6:164:13
- نَفْسٍ10:30:4
- نَفْسٍ10:54:4
- نَفْسٍ13:42:13
- نَفْسٍ14:51:4
- نَفْسٍ16:111:4
Root ن ف س · 298 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ن ف س occurs 298 times across 77 distinct forms.
- أَنفُسَهُمْ2:9:8
- أَنفُسَكُمْ2:44:5
- نَفْسٌ2:48:5
- نَّفْسٍ2:48:7
- أَنفُسَكُم2:54:8
- أَنفُسَكُمْ2:54:15
- أَنفُسَهُمْ2:57:17
- نَفْسًا2:72:3
- أَنفُسَكُم2:84:9
- أَنفُسَكُمْ2:85:5
- أَنفُسُكُمُ2:87:23
- أَنفُسَهُمْ2:90:4
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