Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:88:4

بَل

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): بَل Quranic text
Simple: بَل
Without tashkeel: بل
Normalised (searchable): بل

Position

Computed

Surah: 2 · The Cow
Verse: 2:88
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:88:4

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

بَلstem · 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

The Cow 2:88Quranic text

وَقَالُوا۟قُلُوبُنَا غُلْفٌۢ بَل لَّعَنَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِكُفْرِهِمْ فَقَلِيلًا مَّا يُؤْمِنُونَ

← غُلْفٌۢ 2:88:3 لَّعَنَهُمُ 2:88:5 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:88 — 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 they said, “Our hearts are sealed.” Rather, God has cursed them for their ingratitude. They have little faith

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

And they say: Our hearts are hardened. Nay, but Allah hath cursed them for their unbelief. Little is that which they believe

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And they say, "Uncircumcised are our hearts." Nay! God hath cursed them in their infidelity: few are they who believe

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

They say, 'Our hearts are uncircumcised;' nay, God has cursed them in their unbelief, and few it is who do believe

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَل appears 16 times in the corpus.

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