The Stories 28:26Quranic text
قَالَتْإِحْدَىٰهُمَايَٰٓأَبَتِٱسْتَـْٔجِرْهُإِنَّخَيْرَمَنِٱسْتَـْٔجَرْتَٱلْقَوِىُّٱلْأَمِينُ
Reference 28:26Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:26:6
خَيْرَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- خَيْرَ Quranic text
- Simple
- خَيْرَ
- Without tashkeel
- خير
- Normalised (searchable)
- خير
Position
Computed- Surah
- 28 · The Stories
- Verse
- 28:26
- Word in verse
- 6
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:26:6
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (the) best
- Transliteration
- khayra
- Root
- خ ي رkh-y-r
- Lemma
- خَيْر
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCgender: Mnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- خَيْرَstem · N · خ ي ر
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 28:26 — 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 →
One of the two women said, “Father, hire him; the best employee for you is the strong and trustworthy.”One of the two women said: O my father! Hire him! For the best (man) that thou canst hire in the strong, the trustworthyOne of them said, "O my father, hire him: for the best thou canst hire is the strong, the trustySaid one of them, 'O my sire! hire him; verily, the best of those whom thou canst hire is the strong and faithfulSame form · 4 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form خَيْرَ appears 4 times in the corpus.
Root خ ي ر · 196 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root خ ي ر occurs 196 times across 25 distinct forms.
- خَيْرٌ2:54:17
- خَيْرٌ2:61:30
- خَيْرٌ2:103:9
- خَيْرٍ2:105:14
- بِخَيْرٍ2:106:8
- خَيْرٍ2:110:9
- ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ2:148:6
- خَيْرًا2:158:20
- خَيْرًا2:180:9
- خَيْرًا2:184:22
- خَيْرٌ2:184:24
- خَيْرٌ2:184:28
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