The Prophets 21:78Quranic text
وَدَاوُۥدَوَسُلَيْمَٰنَإِذْيَحْكُمَانِفِىٱلْحَرْثِإِذْنَفَشَتْفِيهِغَنَمُٱلْقَوْمِوَكُنَّالِحُكْمِهِمْشَٰهِدِينَ
Reference 21:78Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:78:12
وَكُنَّا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكُنَّا Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكُنَّا
- Without tashkeel
- وكنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:78
- Word in verse
- 12
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:78:12
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and We were
- Transliteration
- wakunnā
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- كُstem · V · ك و ن
- نَّاsuffix · 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 21:78 — 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 David and Solomon, when they gave judgment in the case of the field, when some people’s sheep wandered therein by night; and We were witnesses to their judgmentAnd David and Solomon, when they gave judgment concerning the field, when people's sheep had strayed and browsed therein by night; and We were witnesses to their judgmentAnd David and Solomon; when they gave judgment concerning a field when some people's sheep had caused a waste therein; and we were witnesses of their judgmentAnd David and Solomon, when they gave judgment concerning the field, when some people's sheep had strayed therein at night; and we testified to their judgmentSame form · 16 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكُنَّا appears 16 times in the corpus.
- وَكُنَّا7:173:8
- وَكُنَّا21:51:7
- وَكُنَّا21:79:13
- وَكُنَّا21:81:11
- وَكُنَّا21:82:10
- وَكُنَّا23:82:4
- وَكُنَّا23:106:6
- وَكُنَّا27:42:13
- وَكُنَّا28:58:15
- وَكُنَّا37:16:3
- وَكُنَّا37:53:3
- وَكُنَّا50:3:3
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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