The Groups 39:4Quranic text
لَّوْأَرَادَٱللَّهُأَنيَتَّخِذَوَلَدًالَّٱصْطَفَىٰمِمَّايَخْلُقُمَايَشَآءُسُبْحَٰنَهُۥهُوَٱللَّهُٱلْوَٰحِدُٱلْقَهَّارُ
Reference 39:4Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 39:4:7
لَّٱصْطَفَىٰ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لَّٱصْطَفَىٰ Quranic text
- Simple
- لَّاصْطَفَىٰ
- Without tashkeel
- لٱصطفى
- Normalised (searchable)
- لاصطفي
Position
Computed- Surah
- 39 · The Groups
- Verse
- 39:4
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:39:4:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Transliteration
- la-iṣ'ṭafā
- Root
- ص ف وsd-f-w
- Lemma
- اصْطَفَى
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 8
Sub-word segments
- لَّprefix · EMPH
- ٱصْطَفَىٰstem · V · ص ف و
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 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 PrevailingIf 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 AbsoluteHad 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 AlmightyHad 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 victoriousSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ص ف و · 17 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ص ف و occurs 17 times across 16 distinct forms.
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَٰهُ2:130:11
- ٱصْطَفَىٰ2:132:9
- ٱصْطَفَىٰهُ2:247:29
- صَفْوَانٍ2:264:21
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ3:33:3
- ٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:7
- وَٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:9
- ٱصْطَفَيْتُكَ7:144:4
- أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ17:40:1
- يَصْطَفِى22:75:2
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ27:59:8
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَا35:32:5
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