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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:128:6

قَبْلَهُم

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قَبْلَهُم Quranic text
Simple
قَبْلَهُم
Without tashkeel
قبلهم
Normalised (searchable)
قبلهم

Position

Computed
Verse
20:128
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:128:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
qablahum
Lemma
قَبْل
Part of speech
Time adverb (T)
Features
case: ACC

Sub-word segments

  1. قَبْلَstem · T · ق ب ل
  2. هُمsuffix · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 20:128 — 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 →

Is it not instructive to them, how many generations before them We destroyed, in whose settlements they walk? Surely in that are signs for people of understanding
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Is it not a guidance for them (to know) how many a generation We destroyed before them, amid whose dwellings they walk? Lo! therein verily are signs for men of thought
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Are not they, who walk the very places where they dwelt, aware how many generations we have destroyed before them? Verily in this are signs to men of insight
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Does it not occur to them how many generations we have destroyed before them?- they walk in their very dwelling-places; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 6 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَبْلَهُم appears 6 times in the corpus.

Root ق ب ل · 294 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ب ل occurs 294 times across 62 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ق ب ل

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