Muhammad 47:21Quranic text
طَاعَةٌوَقَوْلٌمَّعْرُوفٌفَإِذَاعَزَمَٱلْأَمْرُفَلَوْصَدَقُوا۟ٱللَّهَلَكَانَخَيْرًالَّهُمْ
Reference 47:21Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 47:21:10
لَكَانَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لَكَانَ Quranic text
- Simple
- لَكَانَ
- Without tashkeel
- لكان
- Normalised (searchable)
- لكان
Position
Computed- Surah
- 47 · Muhammad
- Verse
- 47:21
- Word in verse
- 10
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:47:21:10
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Transliteration
- lakāna
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- لَprefix · EMPH
- كَانَstem · V · ك و ن
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 47:21 — 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 →
Obedience and upright speech. Then, when the matter is settled, being true to God would have been better for themObedience and a civil word. Then, when the matter is determined, if they are loyal to Allah it will be well for themAnd if, when the command for war is issued, they are true to God, it will be assuredly best for themPreferable for them were obedience and a reasonable speech! But when the matter is determined on, then if they believed God it were better for themSame form · 6 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لَكَانَ appears 6 times in the corpus.
Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كُنتُمْ2:23:2
- كُنتُمْ2:23:19
- وَكُنتُمْ2:28:4
- كُنتُمْ2:31:14
- كُنتُمْ2:33:21
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
- كَانَا2:36:6
- تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
- كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16
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