The Women 4:21Quranic text
وَكَيْفَتَأْخُذُونَهُۥوَقَدْأَفْضَىٰبَعْضُكُمْإِلَىٰبَعْضٍوَأَخَذْنَمِنكُممِّيثَٰقًاغَلِيظًا
Reference 4:21Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:21:8
وَأَخَذْنَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَأَخَذْنَ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَأَخَذْنَ
- Without tashkeel
- وأخذن
- Normalised (searchable)
- واخذن
Position
Computed- Surah
- 4 · The Women
- Verse
- 4:21
- Word in verse
- 8
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:21:8
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and they have taken
- Transliteration
- wa-akhadhna
- Root
- أ خ ذe-kh-dh
- Lemma
- أَخَذَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Fnumber: pluralverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- أَخَذْstem · V · أ خ ذ
- نَsuffix · 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 4:21 — 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 →
And how can you take it back, when you have been intimate with one another, and they have received from you a solid commitmentHow can ye take it (back) after one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have taken a strong pledge from youHow, moreover, could ye take it, when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a strict bond of unionHow care ye take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a rigid compactSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root أ خ ذ · 273 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root أ خ ذ occurs 273 times across 146 distinct forms.
- يُؤْخَذُ2:48:14
- ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ2:51:7
- بِٱتِّخَاذِكُمُ2:54:9
- فَأَخَذَتْكُمُ2:55:11
- أَخَذْنَا2:63:2
- خُذُوا۟2:63:7
- أَتَتَّخِذُنَا2:67:12
- أَتَّخَذْتُمْ2:80:9
- أَخَذْنَا2:83:2
- أَخَذْنَا2:84:2
- ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ2:92:6
- أَخَذْنَا2:93:2
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