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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:78:5

عِلْمٍ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
عِلْمٍ Quranic text
Simple
عِلْمٍ
Without tashkeel
علم
Normalised (searchable)
علم

Position

Computed
Verse
28:78
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:78:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
ʿil'min
Lemma
عِلْم
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. عِلْمٍstem · N · ع ل م

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 28:78 — 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 →

He said, “I was given all this on account of knowledge I possess.” Did he not know that God destroyed many generations before him, who were stronger than he, and possessed greater riches? But the guilty will not be asked about their sins
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: I have been given it only on account of knowledge I possess. Knew he not that Allah had destroyed already of the generations before him men who were mightier than him in strength and greater in respect of following? The guilty are not questioned of their sins
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "It hath been given me only on account of the knowledge that is in me." Did he not know that God had destroyed before him generations that were mightier than he in strength and had amassed more abundant wealth? But the wicked shall not be asked of their crimes
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'I have only been given it for knowledge which I have!' did he not know that God had destroyed before him many generations of those who were stronger than he, and had amassed more? But the sinners need not to be asked concerning their crimes
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 27 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عِلْمٍ appears 27 times in the corpus.

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Root ع ل م · 854 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ل م occurs 854 times across 161 distinct forms.

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