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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:142:8

قِبْلَتِهِمُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قِبْلَتِهِمُ Quranic text
Simple
قِبْلَتِهِمُ
Without tashkeel
قبلتهم
Normalised (searchable)
قبلتهم

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:142
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:142:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
their direction of prayer
Transliteration
qib'latihimu
Root
ق ب لq-b-l
Lemma
قِبْلَة
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. قِبْلَتِstem · N · ق ب ل
  2. هِمُsuffix · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:142 — 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 →

The ignorant among the people will say, “What has turned them away from the direction of prayer they once followed?” Say, “To God belong the East and the West. He guides whom He wills to a straight path.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
The foolish of the people will say: What hath turned them from the qiblah which they formerly observed? Say: Unto Allah belong the East and the West. He guideth whom He will unto a straight path
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
The foolish ones will say, "What hath turned them from the kebla which they used?" SAY: The East and the West are God's. He guideth whom he will into the right path
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
The fools among men will say, 'What has turned them from their qiblah, on which they were agreed?' Say, 'God's is the east and the west, He guides whom He will unto the right path
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ق ب ل · 294 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ب ل occurs 294 times across 62 distinct forms.

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