The Cow 2:132Quranic text
وَوَصَّىٰبِهَآإِبْرَٰهِـۧمُبَنِيهِوَيَعْقُوبُيَٰبَنِىَّإِنَّٱللَّهَٱصْطَفَىٰلَكُمُٱلدِّينَفَلَاتَمُوتُنَّإِلَّاوَأَنتُممُّسْلِمُونَ
Reference 2:132Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:132:9
ٱصْطَفَىٰ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- ٱصْطَفَىٰ Quranic text
- Simple
- اصْطَفَىٰ
- Without tashkeel
- ٱصطفى
- Normalised (searchable)
- اصطفي
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:132
- Word in verse
- 9
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:132:9
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- has chosen
- Transliteration
- iṣ'ṭafā
- Root
- ص ف وsd-f-w
- Lemma
- اصْطَفَى
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 8
Sub-word segments
- ٱصْطَفَىٰstem · V · ص ف و
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 2:132 — 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 →
And Abraham exhorted his sons, and Jacob, “O my sons, God has chosen this religion for you, so do not die unless you have submitted.”The same did Abraham enjoin upon his sons, and also Jacob, (saying): O my sons! Lo! Allah hath chosen for you the (true) religion; therefore die not save as men who have surrendered (unto Him)And this to his children did Abraham bequeath, and Jacob also, saying, "O my children! truly God hath chosen a religion for you; so die not unless ye be also MuslimsAnd Abraham instructed his sons therein, and Jacob (saying), 'O my sons! verily, God has chosen for you a religion, do not therefore die unless ye be resignedSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ص ف و · 17 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ص ف و occurs 17 times across 16 distinct forms.
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَٰهُ2:130:11
- ٱصْطَفَىٰهُ2:247:29
- صَفْوَانٍ2:264:21
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ3:33:3
- ٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:7
- وَٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:9
- ٱصْطَفَيْتُكَ7:144:4
- أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ17:40:1
- يَصْطَفِى22:75:2
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ27:59:8
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَا35:32:5
- أَصْطَفَى37:153:1
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