Taa-Haa 20:129Quranic text
وَلَوْلَاكَلِمَةٌسَبَقَتْمِنرَّبِّكَلَكَانَلِزَامًاوَأَجَلٌمُّسَمًّى
Reference 20:129quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:129:1Sub-word segments
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وَلَوْلَاكَلِمَةٌسَبَقَتْمِنرَّبِّكَلَكَانَلِزَامًاوَأَجَلٌمُّسَمًّى
Reference 20:129These translations render verse 20:129 — 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 →
Were it not for a word that issued from your Lord, the inevitable would have happened, but there is an appointed termAnd but for a decree that had already gone forth from thy Lord, and a term already fixed, the judgment would have been inevitable (in this world)And had not a decree of respite from thy Lord first gone forth, their chastisement had at once ensued. Yet the time is fixedAnd had it not been for thy Lord's word already passed (the punishment) would have been inevitable and (at) an appointed timeThis exact written form وَلَوْلَا appears 17 times in the corpus.
No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.