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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 39:4:13

هُوَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
هُوَ Quranic text
Simple
هُوَ
Without tashkeel
هو
Normalised (searchable)
هو

Position

Computed
Verse
39:4
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:39:4:13

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
He
Transliteration
huwa
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
Part of speech
Pronoun (PRON)
Features
person: 3gender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. هُوَstem · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 39:4 — 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 →

If God wanted to have a son, He could have selected from His creation at will. Glory be to Him. He is God, the One, the Prevailing
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
If Allah had willed to choose a son, He could have chosen what He would of that which He hath created. Be He Glorified! He is Allah, the One, the Absolute
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Had God desired to have had a son, he had surely chosen what he pleased out of his own creation. But praise be to Him! He is God, the One, the Almighty
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Had God wished to take to Himself a child, He would have chosen what He pleased from what He creates;- celebrated be His praises! He is God, the one, the victorious
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 265 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form هُوَ appears 265 times in the corpus.

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