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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:56:8

يَهْدِى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
يَهْدِى Quranic text
Simple
يَهْدِى
Without tashkeel
يهدى
Normalised (searchable)
يهدي

Position

Computed
Verse
28:56
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:56:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
guides
Transliteration
yahdī
Lemma
هَدَى
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. يَهْدِىstem · V · ه د ي

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 28:56 — 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 →

You cannot guide whom you love, but God guides whom He wills, and He knows best those who are guided
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lo! thou (O Muhammad) guidest not whom thou lovest, but Allah guideth whom He will. And He is Best Aware of those who walk aright
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Thou truly canst not guide whom thou desirest; but God guideth whom He will; and He best knoweth those who yield to guidance
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Verily, thou canst not guide whom thou dost like, but God guides whom He pleases; for He knows best who are to be guided
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 38 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَهْدِى appears 38 times in the corpus.

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Root ه د ي · 316 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ه د ي occurs 316 times across 116 distinct forms.

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