The Ant 27:59Quranic text
قُلِٱلْحَمْدُلِلَّهِوَسَلَٰمٌعَلَىٰعِبَادِهِٱلَّذِينَٱصْطَفَىٰٓءَآللَّهُخَيْرٌأَمَّايُشْرِكُونَ
Reference 27:59Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 27:59:8
ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ Quranic text
- Simple
- اصْطَفَىٰٓ
- Without tashkeel
- ٱصطفى
- Normalised (searchable)
- اصطفي
Position
Computed- Surah
- 27 · The Ant
- Verse
- 27:59
- Word in verse
- 8
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:59:8
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- He has chosen.
- Transliteration
- iṣ'ṭafā
- Root
- ص ف وsd-f-w
- Lemma
- اصْطَفَى
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 8
Sub-word segments
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓstem · V · ص ف و
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 27:59 — 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 →
Say, “Praise God, and peace be upon His servants whom He has selected. Is God better, or what they associate?”Say (O Muhammad): Praise be to Allah, and peace be on His slaves whom He hath chosen! Is Allah best, or (all) that ye ascribe as partners (unto Him)SAY: Praise be to God and peace be on His servants whom He hath chosen! Is God the more worthy or the gods they join with HimSay, 'Praise belongs to God; and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen! Is God best, or what they associate with HimSame form · 2 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ appears 2 times in the corpus.
Root ص ف و · 17 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ص ف و occurs 17 times across 16 distinct forms.
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَٰهُ2:130:11
- ٱصْطَفَىٰ2:132:9
- ٱصْطَفَىٰهُ2:247:29
- صَفْوَانٍ2:264:21
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ3:33:3
- ٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:7
- وَٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:9
- ٱصْطَفَيْتُكَ7:144:4
- أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ17:40:1
- يَصْطَفِى22:75:2
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَا35:32:5
- أَصْطَفَى37:153:1
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