The Prophets 21:73Quranic text
وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْأَئِمَّةًيَهْدُونَبِأَمْرِنَاوَأَوْحَيْنَآإِلَيْهِمْفِعْلَٱلْخَيْرَٰتِوَإِقَامَٱلصَّلَوٰةِوَإِيتَآءَٱلزَّكَوٰةِوَكَانُوا۟لَنَاعَٰبِدِينَ
Reference 21:73Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:73:13
وَكَانُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَانُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَانُوا
- Without tashkeel
- وكانوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكانوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:73
- Word in verse
- 13
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:73:13
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and they were
- Transliteration
- wakānū
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
- وا۟suffix · PRON
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 21:73 — 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 →
And We made them leaders, guiding by Our command; and We inspired them to do good works, and to observe the prayer, and to give out charity. They were devoted servants to UsAnd We made them chiefs who guide by Our command, and We inspired in them the doing of good deeds and the right establishment of worship and the giving of alms, and they were worshippers of Us (alone)We also made them models who should guide others by our command, and we inspired them with good deeds and constancy in prayer and almsgiving, and they worshipped usand we made them high priests to guide (men) by our bidding, and we inspired them to do good works, and to be steadfast in prayer, and to give alms; and they did serve usSame form · 30 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَانُوا۟ appears 30 times in the corpus.
- وَكَانُوا۟2:89:10
- وَكَانُوا۟5:44:21
- وَكَانُوا۟6:159:5
- وَكَانُوا۟7:133:11
- وَكَانُوا۟7:136:9
- وَكَانُوا۟7:146:34
- وَكَانُوا۟7:148:21
- وَكَانُوا۟10:63:3
- وَكَانُوا۟10:75:12
- وَكَانُوا۟11:116:25
- وَكَانُوا۟12:20:6
- وَكَانُوا۟12:57:6
Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كُنتُمْ2:23:2
- كُنتُمْ2:23:19
- وَكُنتُمْ2:28:4
- كُنتُمْ2:31:14
- كُنتُمْ2:33:21
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
- كَانَا2:36:6
- تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
- كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16
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