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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:45:4

نَخَافُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
20:45
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:45:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
fear
Transliteration
nakhāfu
Lemma
خافَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. نَخَافُstem · V · خ و ف

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 20:45 — 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 →

They said, “Lord, we fear he may persecute us, or become violent.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: Our Lord! Lo! we fear that he may be beforehand with us or that he may play the tyrant
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "O our Lord! truly we fear lest he break forth against us, or act with exceeding injustice
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They two said, 'Our Lord! verily, we fear that he may trespass against us, or that he may be outrageous
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form نَخَافُ appears 2 times in the corpus.

Root خ و ف · 124 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root خ و ف occurs 124 times across 47 distinct forms.

See the full root page for خ و ف

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