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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:51:6

قَبْلُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
21 · The Prophets
Verse
21:51
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:51:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
before,
Transliteration
qablu
Root
ق ب لq-b-l
Lemma
قَبْل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GEN

Sub-word segments

  1. قَبْلُstem · N · ق ب ل

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 21:51 — 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 →

We gave Abraham his integrity formerly, and We knew him well
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And We verily gave Abraham of old his proper course, and We were Aware of him
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Of old we gave unto Abraham his direction, for we knew him worthy
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And we gave Abraham a right direction before; for about him we knew
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 70 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَبْلُ appears 70 times in the corpus.

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Root ق ب ل · 294 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ب ل occurs 294 times across 62 distinct forms.

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