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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 24:30:6

وَيَحْفَظُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَيَحْفَظُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
وَيَحْفَظُوا
Without tashkeel
ويحفظوا
Normalised (searchable)
ويحفظوا

Position

Computed
Surah
24 · The Light
Verse
24:30
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:24:30:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and they should guard
Transliteration
wayaḥfaẓū
Root
ح ف ظhh-f-zh
Lemma
حَفِظَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: JUSperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. يَحْفَظُstem · V · ح ف ظ
  3. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 24:30 — 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 →

Tell the believing men to restrain their looks, and to guard their privates. That is purer for them. God is cognizant of what they do
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and be modest. That is purer for them. Lo! Allah is aware of what they do
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Speak unto the believers that they restrain their eyes and observe continence. Thus will they be more pure. God is well aware of what they do
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say to the believers that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; verily, God is well aware of what they do
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 ح ف ظ · 44 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ح ف ظ occurs 44 times across 30 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ح ف ظ →

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Community

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