Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:23:7

نَعْجَةً

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): نَعْجَةً Quranic text
Simple: نَعْجَةً
Without tashkeel: نعجة
Normalised (searchable): نعجه

Position

Computed

Surah: 38 · The letter Saad
Verse: 38:23
Word in verse: 7
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:23:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: ewe(s)
Transliteration: naʿjatan

Root: ن ع جn-aa-j
Lemma: نَعْجَة
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: F

Sub-word segments

نَعْجَةًstem · N · ن ع ج

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The letter Saad 38:23Quranic text

إِنَّ هَٰذَآ أَخِى لَهُۥ تِسْعٌ وَتِسْعُونَ نَعْجَةً وَلِىَ نَعْجَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ فَقَالَ أَكْفِلْنِيهَا وَعَزَّنِى فِى ٱلْخِطَابِ

← وَتِسْعُونَ 38:23:6 وَلِىَ 38:23:8 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These 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.”

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

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 speech

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Now 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 dispute

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Verily, 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 discourse

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 ن ع ج · 4 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ن ع ج occurs 4 times across 4 distinct forms.

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