يَبْحَثُ — Quran 5:31:4 · root ب ح ث

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): يَبْحَثُ Quranic text
Simple: يَبْحَثُ
Without tashkeel: يبحث
Normalised (searchable): يبحث

Position

Computed

Surah: 5 · The Table
Verse: 5:31
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:31:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: it (was) scratching
Transliteration: yabḥathu

Root: ب ح ثb-hh-th
Lemma: يَبْحَثُ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

يَبْحَثُstem · V · ب ح ث

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Table 5:31Quranic text

فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ قَالَ يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّٰدِمِينَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 5:31 — 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 →

Then God sent a raven digging the ground, to show him how to cover his brother's corpse. He said, “Woe to me! I was unable to be like this raven, and bury my brother's corpse.” So he became full of regrets

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Then Allah sent a raven scratching up the ground, to show him how to hide his brother's naked corpse. He said: Woe unto me! Am I not able to be as this raven and so hide my brother's naked corpse? And he became repentant

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And God sent a raven which scratched upon the ground, to shew him how he might hide his brother's wrong. He said: "O woe is me! am I too weak to become like this raven, and to hide away my brother's wrong?" And he became one of the repentant

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And God sent a crow to scratch in the earth and show him how he might hide his brother's shame, he said, ' Alas, for me! Am I too helpless to become like this crow and hide my brother's shame?' and in the morning he was of those who did repent

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ب ح ث · 1 occurrence

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب ح ث occurs 1 time across 1 distinct form.

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