The Women 4:86Quranic text
وَإِذَاحُيِّيتُمبِتَحِيَّةٍفَحَيُّوا۟بِأَحْسَنَمِنْهَآأَوْرُدُّوهَآإِنَّٱللَّهَكَانَعَلَىٰكُلِّشَىْءٍحَسِيبًا
Reference 4:86Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:86:3
بِتَحِيَّةٍ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- بِتَحِيَّةٍ Quranic text
- Simple
- بِتَحِيَّةٍ
- Without tashkeel
- بتحية
- Normalised (searchable)
- بتحيه
Position
Computed- Surah
- 4 · The Women
- Verse
- 4:86
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:86:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- with a greeting,
- Transliteration
- bitaḥiyyatin
- Root
- ح ي يhh-y-y
- Lemma
- تَحِيَّة
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENstate: indefinitegender: Fderivation: VNverb_form: 2
Sub-word segments
- بِprefix · P
- تَحِيَّةٍstem · N · ح ي ي
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 4:86 — 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 →
When you are greeted with a greeting, respond with a better greeting, or return it. God keeps count of everythingWhen ye are greeted with a greeting, greet ye with a better than it or return it. Lo! Allah taketh count of all thingsIf ye are greeted with a greeting, then greet ye with a better greeting, or at least return it: God taketh count of all thingsAnd when ye are saluted with a salutation, salute with a better than it, or return it;- verily, God of all things takes accountSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ح ي ي · 189 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ح ي ي occurs 189 times across 76 distinct forms.
- يَسْتَحْىِۦٓ2:26:4
- فَأَحْيَٰكُمْ2:28:6
- يُحْيِيكُمْ2:28:10
- وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ2:49:11
- يُحْىِ2:73:5
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ2:85:37
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ2:86:4
- حَيَوٰةٍ2:96:5
- أَحْيَآءٌ2:154:10
- فَأَحْيَا2:164:24
- حَيَوٰةٌ2:179:4
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ2:204:7
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