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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:129:3

سَبَقَتْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:129
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:129:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(that) preceded
Transliteration
sabaqat
Root
س ب قs-b-q
Lemma
سَبَقَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Fnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. سَبَقَتْstem · V · س ب ق

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These 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 term
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And 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)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And had not a decree of respite from thy Lord first gone forth, their chastisement had at once ensued. Yet the time is fixed
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And had it not been for thy Lord's word already passed (the punishment) would have been inevitable and (at) an appointed time
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form سَبَقَتْ appears 7 times in the corpus.

Root س ب ق · 37 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ب ق occurs 37 times across 23 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ب ق →

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