The Women 4:22Quranic text
وَلَاتَنكِحُوا۟مَانَكَحَءَابَآؤُكُممِّنَٱلنِّسَآءِإِلَّامَاقَدْسَلَفَإِنَّهُۥكَانَفَٰحِشَةًوَمَقْتًاوَسَآءَسَبِيلًا
Reference 4:22Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:22:4
نَكَحَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- نَكَحَ Quranic text
- Simple
- نَكَحَ
- Without tashkeel
- نكح
- Normalised (searchable)
- نكح
Position
Computed- Surah
- 4 · The Women
- Verse
- 4:22
- Word in verse
- 4
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:22:4
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- married
- Transliteration
- nakaḥa
- Root
- ن ك حn-k-hh
- Lemma
- نَكَحَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- نَكَحَstem · V · ن ك ح
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 4:22 — 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 →
Do not marry women whom your fathers married, except what is already past. That is improper, indecent, and a bad customAnd marry not those women whom your fathers married, except what hath already happened (of that nature) in the past. Lo! it was ever lewdness and abomination, and an evil wayAnd marry not women whom your fathers have married: for this is a shame, and hateful, and an evil way: though what is past may be allowedAnd do not marry women your fathers married,- except bygones,- for it is abominable and hateful, and an evil waySame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ن ك ح · 23 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ن ك ح occurs 23 times across 19 distinct forms.
- تَنكِحُوا۟2:221:2
- تُنكِحُوا۟2:221:14
- تَنكِحَ2:230:9
- يَنكِحْنَ2:232:9
- ٱلنِّكَاحِ2:235:30
- ٱلنِّكَاحِ2:237:22
- فَٱنكِحُوا۟4:3:7
- ٱلنِّكَاحَ4:6:6
- تَنكِحُوا۟4:22:2
- يَنكِحَ4:25:7
- فَٱنكِحُوهُنَّ4:25:23
- تَنكِحُوهُنَّ4:127:24
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