The Stories 28:4Quranic text
إِنَّفِرْعَوْنَعَلَافِىٱلْأَرْضِوَجَعَلَأَهْلَهَاشِيَعًايَسْتَضْعِفُطَآئِفَةًمِّنْهُمْيُذَبِّحُأَبْنَآءَهُمْوَيَسْتَحْىِۦنِسَآءَهُمْإِنَّهُۥكَانَمِنَٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ
Reference 28:4Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:4:9
يَسْتَضْعِفُ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- يَسْتَضْعِفُ Quranic text
- Simple
- يَسْتَضْعِفُ
- Without tashkeel
- يستضعف
- Normalised (searchable)
- يستضعف
Position
Computed- Surah
- 28 · The Stories
- Verse
- 28:4
- Word in verse
- 9
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:4:9
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- oppressing
- Transliteration
- yastaḍʿifu
- Root
- ض ع فdd-aa-f
- Lemma
- اسْتَضْعَفُ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 10
Sub-word segments
- يَسْتَضْعِفُstem · V · ض ع ف
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In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 28:4 — 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 →
Pharaoh exalted himself in the land, and divided its people into factions. He persecuted a group of them, slaughtering their sons, while sparing their daughters. He was truly a corrupterLo! Pharaoh exalted himself in the earth and made its people castes. A tribe among them he oppressed, killing their sons and sparing their women. Lo! he was of those who work corruptionNow Pharaoh lifted himself up in the earth, and divided his people into parties: one portion of them he brought low - He slew their male children, and let their females only live; for he was one of those who wrought disordersVerily, Pharaoh was lofty in the land and made the people thereof sects; one party of them he weakened, slaughtering their sons and letting their women live. Verily, he was of the despoilersSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ض ع ف · 52 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ض ع ف occurs 52 times across 36 distinct forms.
- فَيُضَٰعِفَهُۥ2:245:8
- أَضْعَافًا2:245:10
- يُضَٰعِفُ2:261:19
- ضِعْفَيْنِ2:265:18
- ضُعَفَآءُ2:266:23
- ضَعِيفًا2:282:42
- أَضْعَٰفًا3:130:7
- مُّضَٰعَفَةً3:130:8
- ضَعُفُوا۟3:146:16
- ضِعَٰفًا4:9:8
- ضَعِيفًا4:28:8
- يُضَٰعِفْهَا4:40:10
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