The Cow 2:68Quranic text
قَالُوا۟ٱدْعُلَنَارَبَّكَيُبَيِّنلَّنَامَاهِىَقَالَإِنَّهُۥيَقُولُإِنَّهَابَقَرَةٌلَّافَارِضٌوَلَابِكْرٌعَوَانٌۢبَيْنَذَٰلِكَفَٱفْعَلُوا۟مَاتُؤْمَرُونَ
Reference 2:68Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:68:17
بِكْرٌ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- بِكْرٌ Quranic text
- Simple
- بِكْرٌ
- Without tashkeel
- بكر
- Normalised (searchable)
- بكر
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:68
- Word in verse
- 17
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:68:17
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- young,
- Transliteration
- bik'run
- Root
- ب ك رb-k-r
- Lemma
- بِكْر
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Madjective: true
Sub-word segments
- بِكْرٌstem · N · ب ك ر
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 2:68 — 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 →
They said, “Call upon your Lord to show us which one.” He said, “He says she is a heifer, neither too old, nor too young, but in between. So do what you are commanded.”They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is. (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith, Verily she is a cow neither with calf nor immature; (she is) between the two conditions; so do that which ye are commandedThey said, "Call on thy Lord for us that He would make plain to us what she is." He said, "God saith, 'She is a cow neither old nor young, but of the middle age between the two:' do therefore what ye are biddenThey said, 'Then pray thy Lord for us to show us what she is to be.' He answered, 'He saith it is a cow, nor old, nor young, of middle age between the two; so do as ye are bidSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ب ك ر · 12 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ب ك ر occurs 12 times across 5 distinct forms.
- وَٱلْإِبْكَٰرِ3:41:20
- بُكْرَةً19:11:10
- بُكْرَةً19:62:10
- بُكْرَةً25:5:8
- بُكْرَةً33:42:2
- وَٱلْإِبْكَٰرِ40:55:12
- بُكْرَةً48:9:7
- بُكْرَةً54:38:3
- أَبْكَارًا56:36:2
- وَأَبْكَارًا66:5:17
- بُكْرَةً76:25:4
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