The Women 4:15Quranic text
وَٱلَّٰتِىيَأْتِينَٱلْفَٰحِشَةَمِننِّسَآئِكُمْفَٱسْتَشْهِدُوا۟عَلَيْهِنَّأَرْبَعَةًمِّنكُمْفَإِنشَهِدُوا۟فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّفِىٱلْبُيُوتِحَتَّىٰيَتَوَفَّىٰهُنَّٱلْمَوْتُأَوْيَجْعَلَٱللَّهُلَهُنَّسَبِيلًا
Reference 4:15Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:15:11
شَهِدُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- شَهِدُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- شَهِدُوا
- Without tashkeel
- شهدوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- شهدوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 4 · The Women
- Verse
- 4:15
- Word in verse
- 11
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:15:11
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- they testify
- Transliteration
- shahidū
- Root
- ش ه دsh-h-d
- Lemma
- شَهِدَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- شَهِدُstem · V · ش ه د
- وا۟suffix · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 4:15 — 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 →
Those of your women who commit lewdness, you must have four witnesses against them, from among you. If they testify, confine them to the homes until death claims them, or God makes a way for themAs for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them to the houses until death take them or (until) Allah appoint for them a way (through new legislation)If any of your women be guilty of whoredom, then bring four witnesses against them from among yourselves; and if they bear witness to the fact, shut them up within their houses till death release them, or God make some way for themAgainst those of your women who commit adultery, call witnesses four in number from among yourselves; and if these bear witness, then keep the women in houses until death release them, or God shall make for them a waySame form · 2 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form شَهِدُوا۟ appears 2 times in the corpus.
Root ش ه د · 160 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ش ه د occurs 160 times across 81 distinct forms.
- شُهَدَآءَكُم2:23:14
- تَشْهَدُونَ2:84:15
- شُهَدَآءَ2:133:3
- شَهَٰدَةً2:140:22
- شُهَدَآءَ2:143:6
- شَهِيدًا2:143:12
- شَهِدَ2:185:14
- وَيُشْهِدُ2:204:9
- وَٱسْتَشْهِدُوا۟2:282:52
- شَهِيدَيْنِ2:282:53
- ٱلشُّهَدَآءِ2:282:65
- ٱلشُّهَدَآءُ2:282:74
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