Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:59:16

بِمَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): بِمَا Quranic text
Simple: بِمَا
Without tashkeel: بما
Normalised (searchable): بما

Position

Computed

Surah: 2 · The Cow
Verse: 2:59
Word in verse: 16
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:59:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: because
Transliteration: bimā

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: ما
Part of speech: Relative pronoun (REL)
Features: —

Sub-word segments

بِprefix · P
مَاstem · REL

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

The Cow 2:59Quranic text

فَبَدَّلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟قَوْلًا غَيْرَ ٱلَّذِى قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟رِجْزًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟يَفْسُقُونَ

← ٱلسَّمَآءِ 2:59:15 كَانُوا۟ 2:59:17 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:59 — 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 →

But the wrongdoers among them substituted words other than those given to them, so We sent down on the wrongdoers a plague from heaven, because of their wicked behavior

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

But those who did wrong changed the word which had been told them for another saying, and We sent down upon the evil-doers wrath from heaven for their evil-doing

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

But the evil-doers changed that word into another than that spoken to them, and we sent down upon those evil-doers wrath from heaven, for that they had done amiss

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

But those who did wrong changed it for another word than that which was said to them: and we sent down upon those who did wrong, wrath from heaven for that they had so sinned

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 253 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بِمَا appears 253 times in the corpus.

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