The Cow 2:207Quranic text
وَمِنَٱلنَّاسِمَنيَشْرِىنَفْسَهُٱبْتِغَآءَمَرْضَاتِٱللَّهِوَٱللَّهُرَءُوفٌۢبِٱلْعِبَادِ
Reference 2:207Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:207:5
نَفْسَهُ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- نَفْسَهُ Quranic text
- Simple
- نَفْسَهُ
- Without tashkeel
- نفسه
- Normalised (searchable)
- نفسه
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:207
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:207:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- his own self
- Transliteration
- nafsahu
- Root
- ن ف سn-f-s
- Lemma
- نَفْس
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCgender: Fnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- نَفْسَstem · N · ن ف س
- هُsuffix · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 2:207 — 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 among the people is he who sells himself seeking God’s approval. God is kind towards the servantsAnd of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the pleasure of Allah; and Allah hath compassion on (His) bondmenA man, too, there is who selleth his very self out of desire to please God: and God is good to his servantsAnd there is among men one who selleth his soul craving, those things that are pleasing unto God and God is kind unto His servantsSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
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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