quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:24:22Sub-word segments
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فَقَالَٱلْمَلَؤُا۟ٱلَّذِينَكَفَرُوا۟مِنقَوْمِهِۦمَاهَٰذَآإِلَّابَشَرٌمِّثْلُكُمْيُرِيدُأَنيَتَفَضَّلَعَلَيْكُمْوَلَوْشَآءَٱللَّهُلَأَنزَلَمَلَٰٓئِكَةًمَّاسَمِعْنَابِهَٰذَافِىٓءَابَآئِنَاٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Reference 23:24These translations render verse 23:24 — 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 →
But the notables of his people, who disbelieved, said, “This is nothing but a human like you, who wants to gain superiority over you. Had God willed, He would have sent down angels. We never heard of this from our forefathers of oldBut the chieftains of his folk, who disbelieved, said: This is only a mortal like you who would make himself superior to you. Had Allah willed, He surely could have sent down angels. We heard not of this in the case of our fathers of oldBut the chiefs of the people who believed not said, "This is but a man like yourselves: he fain would raise himself above you: but had it pleased God to send, He would have sent angels: We heard not of this with our sires of oldSaid the chiefs of those who misbelieved among his people, 'This is nothing but a mortal like yourselves who wishes to have preference over you, and had God pleased He would have sent angels; we have not heard of this amongst our fathers of yoreThis exact written form سَمِعْنَا appears 16 times in the corpus.
The root س م ع occurs 185 times across 65 distinct forms.
No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.