Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:21:4

ٱلْخَصْمِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): ٱلْخَصْمِ Quranic text
Simple: الْخَصْمِ
Without tashkeel: ٱلخصم
Normalised (searchable): الخصم

Position

Computed

Surah: 38 · The letter Saad
Verse: 38:21
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:21:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: (of) the litigants,
Transliteration: l-khaṣmi

Root: خ ص مkh-sd-m
Lemma: خَصْم
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: GENgender: M

Sub-word segments

ٱلْprefix · DET
خَصْمِstem · N · خ ص م

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The letter Saad 38:21Quranic text

وَهَلْ أَتَىٰكَ نَبَؤُا۟ٱلْخَصْمِ إِذْ تَسَوَّرُوا۟ٱلْمِحْرَابَ

← نَبَؤُا۟ 38:21:3 إِذْ 38:21:5 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 38:21 — 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 →

Has the story of the two disputants reached you? When they scaled the sanctuary

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

And hath the story of the litigants come unto thee? How they climbed the wall into the royal chamber

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Hath the story of the two pleaders reached thee, O Muhammad, when they mounted the walls of his closet

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Has there come to thee the story of the antagonists when they scaled the chamber wall

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root خ ص م · 18 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root خ ص م occurs 18 times across 12 distinct forms.

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