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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:20:4

حَيَّةٌ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
حَيَّةٌ Quranic text
Simple
حَيَّةٌ
Without tashkeel
حية
Normalised (searchable)
حيه

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:20
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:20:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(was) a snake,
Transliteration
ḥayyatun
Root
ح ي يhh-y-y
Lemma
حَيَّة
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. حَيَّةٌstem · N · ح ي ي

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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 20:20 — 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 →

So he threw it—thereupon it became a moving serpent
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
So he cast it down, and lo! it was a serpent, gliding
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
So he cast it down, and lo! it became a serpent that ran along
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and he threw it down, and behold! it was a snake that moved about
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
he cast so when she a serpent he hastens

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ح ي ي · 189 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ح ي ي occurs 189 times across 76 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ح ي ي →

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