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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:143:16

سَبِيلًا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
4:143
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:143:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
a way.
Transliteration
sabīlan
Lemma
سَبِيل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. سَبِيلًاstem · N · س ب ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 4:143 — 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 →

Wavering in between, neither with these, nor with those. Whomever God sends astray, you will never find for him a way
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Swaying between this (and that), (belonging) neither to these nor to those. He whom Allah causeth to go astray, thou (O Muhammad) wilt not find a way for him
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Wavering between the one and the other - belonging neither to these nor those! and by no means shalt thou find a path for him whom God misleadeth
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
wavering between the two, neither to these nor yet to those! but whomsoever God doth lead astray thou shall not find for him a way
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 28 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form سَبِيلًا appears 28 times in the corpus.

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Root س ب ل · 176 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ب ل occurs 176 times across 26 distinct forms.

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