The Cow 2:28Quranic text
كَيْفَتَكْفُرُونَبِٱللَّهِوَكُنتُمْأَمْوَٰتًافَأَحْيَٰكُمْثُمَّيُمِيتُكُمْثُمَّيُحْيِيكُمْثُمَّإِلَيْهِتُرْجَعُونَ
Reference 2:28Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:28:4
وَكُنتُمْ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكُنتُمْ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكُنتُمْ
- Without tashkeel
- وكنتم
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكنتم
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:28
- Word in verse
- 4
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:28:4
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- While you were
- Transliteration
- wakuntum
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 2gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CIRC
- كُنstem · V · ك و ن
- تُمْsuffix · 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 2:28 — 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 →
How can you deny God, when you were dead and He gave you life, then He will put you to death, then He will bring you to life, then to Him you will be returnedHow disbelieve ye in Allah when ye were dead and He gave life to you! Then He will give you death, then life again, and then unto Him ye will returnHow can ye withhold faith from God? Ye were dead and He gave you life; next He will cause you to die; next He will restore you to life: next shall ye return to HimHow can ye disbelieve in God, when ye were dead and He made you alive, and then He will kill you and then make you alive again, and then to Him will ye returnSame form · 7 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكُنتُمْ appears 7 times in the corpus.
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
- كُنتُمْ2:31:14
- كُنتُمْ2:33:21
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
- كَانَا2:36:6
- تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
- كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16
- كَانُوا۟2:59:17
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