The Cave 18:79Quranic text
أَمَّاٱلسَّفِينَةُفَكَانَتْلِمَسَٰكِينَيَعْمَلُونَفِىٱلْبَحْرِفَأَرَدتُّأَنْأَعِيبَهَاوَكَانَوَرَآءَهُممَّلِكٌيَأْخُذُكُلَّسَفِينَةٍغَصْبًا
Reference 18:79Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:79:11
وَكَانَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَانَ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَانَ
- Without tashkeel
- وكان
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكان
Position
Computed- Surah
- 18 · The Cave
- Verse
- 18:79
- Word in verse
- 11
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:79:11
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (as there) 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 18:79 — 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 →
As for the boat, it belonged to paupers working at sea. I wanted to damage it because there was a king coming after them seizing every boat by forceAs for the ship, it belonged to poor people working on the river, and I wished to mar it, for there was a king behind them who is taking every ship by forceAs to the vessel, it belonged to poor men who toiled upon the sea, and I was minded to damage it, for in their rear was a king who seized every ship by forceAs for the bark it belonged to poor people, who toiled on the sea, and I wished to damage it, for behind it was a king who seized on every bark by forceSame 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
Cited by 0 investigations
CommunityNo published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.