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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:96:8

قَبْضَةً

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قَبْضَةً Quranic text
Simple
قَبْضَةً
Without tashkeel
قبضة
Normalised (searchable)
قبضه

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:96
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:96:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
a handful
Transliteration
qabḍatan
Root
ق ب ضq-b-dd
Lemma
قَبْضَة
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. قَبْضَةًstem · N · ق ب ض

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 20:96 — 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 →

He said, “I saw what they did not see, so I grasped a handful from the Messenger’s traces, and I flung it away. Thus my soul prompted me.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: I perceived what they perceive not, so I seized a handful from the footsteps of the messenger, and then threw it in. Thus my soul commended to me
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful of dust from the track of the messenger of God, and flung it into the calf, for so my soul prompted me
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'I beheld what they beheld not, and I grasped a handful from the footprint of the messenger and cast it; for thus my soul induced me
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

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

Root ق ب ض · 9 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ب ض occurs 9 times across 9 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ق ب ض →

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