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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:154:9

بَلْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:154
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:154:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Nay,
Transliteration
bal
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
بَل
Part of speech
RET
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. بَلْstem · RET

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 2:154 — 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 do not say of those who are killed in the cause of God, “Dead.” Rather, they are alive, but you do not perceive
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And call not those who are slain in the way of Allah "dead." Nay, they are living, only ye perceive not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And say not of those who are slain on God's path that they are Dead; nay, they are Living! But ye understand not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And say not of those who are slain in God's way (that they are) dead, but rather living; but ye do not perceive
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 97 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَلْ appears 97 times in the corpus.

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Community

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