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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:161:16

نَفْسٍ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
3:161
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:161:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
soul
Transliteration
nafsin
Lemma
نَفْس
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENstate: indefinitegender: Fnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. نَفْسٍstem · N · ن ف س

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 3:161 — 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 →

It is not for a prophet to act dishonestly. Whoever acts dishonestly will bring his dishonesty on the Day of Resurrection. Then every soul will be paid in full for what it has earned, and they will not be wronged
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
It is not for any prophet to embezzle. Whoso embezzleth will bring what he embezzled with him on the Day of Resurrection. Then every soul will be paid in full what it hath earned; and they will not be wronged
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
It is not the Prophet who will defraud you; - But he who shall defraud, shall come forth with his defraudings on the day of the resurrection: then shall every soul be paid what it hath merited, and they shall not be treated with injustice
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
It is not for the prophet to cheat; and he who cheats shall bring what he has cheated on the resurrection day. Then shall each soul be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 20 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form نَفْسٍ appears 20 times in the corpus.

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Root ن ف س · 298 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ن ف س occurs 298 times across 77 distinct forms.

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