Ornaments of gold 43:58Quranic text
وَقَالُوٓا۟ءَأَٰلِهَتُنَاخَيْرٌأَمْهُوَمَاضَرَبُوهُلَكَإِلَّاجَدَلًۢابَلْهُمْقَوْمٌخَصِمُونَ
Reference 43:58Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:58:3
خَيْرٌ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- خَيْرٌ Quranic text
- Simple
- خَيْرٌ
- Without tashkeel
- خير
- Normalised (searchable)
- خير
Position
Computed- Verse
- 43:58
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:58:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- better
- Transliteration
- khayrun
- Root
- خ ي رkh-y-r
- Lemma
- خَيْر
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singularadjective: true
Sub-word segments
- خَيْرٌstem · N · خ ي ر
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 43:58 — 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 →
They said, “Are our gods better, or he?” They cited him only for argument. In fact, they are a quarrelsome peopleAnd say: Are our gods better, or is he? They raise not the objection save for argument. Nay! but they are a contentious folkAnd they said, "Are our gods or is he the better?" They put this forth to thee only in the spirit of dispute. Yea, they are a contentious peopleand said, 'Are our gods better, or is he?' They did not set it forth to thee save for wrangling. Nay, but they are a contentious peopleSame form · 78 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form خَيْرٌ appears 78 times in the corpus.
- خَيْرٌ2:54:17
- خَيْرٌ2:61:30
- خَيْرٌ2:103:9
- خَيْرٌ2:184:24
- خَيْرٌ2:184:28
- خَيْرٌ2:216:12
- خَيْرٌ2:220:10
- خَيْرٌ2:221:8
- خَيْرٌ2:221:20
- خَيْرٌ2:263:4
- خَيْرٌ2:271:11
- خَيْرٌ2:280:10
Root خ ي ر · 196 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root خ ي ر occurs 196 times across 25 distinct forms.
- خَيْرٌ2:54:17
- خَيْرٌ2:61:30
- خَيْرٌ2:103:9
- خَيْرٍ2:105:14
- بِخَيْرٍ2:106:8
- خَيْرٍ2:110:9
- ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ2:148:6
- خَيْرًا2:158:20
- خَيْرًا2:180:9
- خَيْرًا2:184:22
- خَيْرٌ2:184:24
- خَيْرٌ2:184:28
Cited by 0 investigations
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