The letter Saad 38:23Quranic text
إِنَّهَٰذَآأَخِىلَهُۥتِسْعٌوَتِسْعُونَنَعْجَةًوَلِىَنَعْجَةٌوَٰحِدَةٌفَقَالَأَكْفِلْنِيهَاوَعَزَّنِىفِىٱلْخِطَابِ
Reference 38:23Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:23:12
أَكْفِلْنِيهَا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَكْفِلْنِيهَا Quranic text
- Simple
- أَكْفِلْنِيهَا
- Without tashkeel
- أكفلنيها
- Normalised (searchable)
- اكفلنيها
Position
Computed- Surah
- 38 · The letter Saad
- Verse
- 38:23
- Word in verse
- 12
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:23:12
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- "Entrust her to me,"
- Transliteration
- akfil'nīhā
- Root
- ك ف لk-f-l
- Lemma
- أَكْفِلْ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: IMPVperson: 2gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 4
Sub-word segments
- أَكْفِلْstem · V · ك ف ل
- نِيsuffix · PRON
- هَاsuffix · PRON
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 38:23 — 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 →
“This brother of mine has ninety nine ewes, and I have one ewe, and he said, ‘Entrust it to me,’ and he pressured me with words.”Lo! this my brother hath ninety and nine ewes while I had one ewe; and he said: Entrust it to me, and he conquered me in speechNow this my brother had ninety and nine ewes, and I had but a single ewe; and he said, make me her keeper. And he over-persuaded me in the disputeVerily, this is my brother: be had ninety-nine ewes and I had one ewe; and he said, "Give her over to my charge;" and he overcame me in the discourseSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ك ف ل · 10 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك ف ل occurs 10 times across 9 distinct forms.
- وَكَفَّلَهَا3:37:8
- يَكْفُلُ3:44:14
- كِفْلٌ4:85:15
- كَفِيلًا16:91:15
- يَكْفُلُهُۥ20:40:9
- ٱلْكِفْلِ21:85:4
- يَكْفُلُونَهُۥ28:12:12
- ٱلْكِفْلِ38:48:5
- كِفْلَيْنِ57:28:9
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