The Family of Imraan 3:71Quranic text
يَٰٓأَهْلَٱلْكِتَٰبِلِمَتَلْبِسُونَٱلْحَقَّبِٱلْبَٰطِلِوَتَكْتُمُونَٱلْحَقَّوَأَنتُمْتَعْلَمُونَ
Reference 3:71Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:71:3
لِمَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لِمَ Quranic text
- Simple
- لِمَ
- Without tashkeel
- لم
- Normalised (searchable)
- لم
Position
Computed- Verse
- 3:71
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:71:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Why
- Transliteration
- lima
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- لِprefix · P
- مَstem · INTG
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 3:71 — 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 →
O People of the Book! Why do you confound the truth with falsehood, and knowingly conceal the truthO People of the Scripture! Why confound ye truth with falsehood and knowingly conceal the truthO people of the Book! why clothe ye the truth with falsehood? Why wittingly hide the truthO people of the Book! why do ye clothe the truth with falsehood and hide the truth the while ye knowSame form · 15 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لِمَ appears 15 times in the corpus.
- لِمَ3:65:3
- لِمَ3:70:3
- لِمَ3:98:4
- لِمَ3:99:4
- لِمَ4:77:29
- لِمَ7:164:5
- لِمَ9:43:4
- لِمَ19:42:5
- لِمَ20:125:3
- لِمَ27:46:3
- لِمَ41:21:3
- لِمَ61:2:4
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