The letter Saad 38:76Quranic text
قَالَأَنَا۠خَيْرٌمِّنْهُخَلَقْتَنِىمِننَّارٍوَخَلَقْتَهُۥمِنطِينٍ
Reference 38:76Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:76:3
خَيْرٌ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- خَيْرٌ Quranic text
- Simple
- خَيْرٌ
- Without tashkeel
- خير
- Normalised (searchable)
- خير
Position
Computed- Surah
- 38 · The letter Saad
- Verse
- 38:76
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:76:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- better
- Transliteration
- khayrun
- Root
- خ ي رkh-y-r
- Lemma
- خَيْر
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- خَيْرٌstem · N · خ ي ر
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 38:76 — 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 →
He said, “I am better than he; You created me from fire, and You created him from clay.”He said: I am better than him. Thou createdst me of fire, whilst him Thou didst create of clayHe said: "I am more excellent than he; me hast thou created of fire: of clay hast thou created himSaid he, 'I am better than he, Thou hast created me from fire, and him Thou hast created from claySame form · 78 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form خَيْرٌ appears 78 times in the corpus.
- خَيْرٌ2:54:17
- خَيْرٌ2:61:30
- خَيْرٌ2:103:9
- خَيْرٌ2:184:24
- خَيْرٌ2:184:28
- خَيْرٌ2:216:12
- خَيْرٌ2:220:10
- خَيْرٌ2:221:8
- خَيْرٌ2:221:20
- خَيْرٌ2:263:4
- خَيْرٌ2:271:11
- خَيْرٌ2:280:10
Root خ ي ر · 196 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root خ ي ر occurs 196 times across 25 distinct forms.
- خَيْرٌ2:54:17
- خَيْرٌ2:61:30
- خَيْرٌ2:103:9
- خَيْرٍ2:105:14
- بِخَيْرٍ2:106:8
- خَيْرٍ2:110:9
- ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ2:148:6
- خَيْرًا2:158:20
- خَيْرًا2:180:9
- خَيْرًا2:184:22
- خَيْرٌ2:184:24
- خَيْرٌ2:184:28
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