Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:98:4

لِمَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): لِمَ Quranic text
Simple: لِمَ
Without tashkeel: لم
Normalised (searchable): لم

Position

Computed

Surah: 3 · The Family of Imraan
Verse: 3:98
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:98:4

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 1.1

The Family of Imraan 3:98Quranic text

قُلْ يَٰٓأَهْلَ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ لِمَ تَكْفُرُونَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ وَٱللَّهُ شَهِيدٌ عَلَىٰ مَا تَعْمَلُونَ

← ٱلْكِتَٰبِ 3:98:3 تَكْفُرُونَ 3:98:5 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 3:98 — 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 →

Say, “O People of the Scripture, why do you reject the Revelations of God, when God witnesses what you do?”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Say: O People of the Scripture! Why disbelieve ye in the revelations of Allah, when Allah (Himself) is Witness of what ye do

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

SAY: O people of the Book! why disbelieve ye the signs of God? But God is witness of your doings

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Say, 'O people of the Book! why do ye misbelieve in God's signs, while God is witness of what ye do

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 15 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِمَ appears 15 times in the corpus.

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