The Table 5:43Quranic text
وَكَيْفَيُحَكِّمُونَكَوَعِندَهُمُٱلتَّوْرَىٰةُفِيهَاحُكْمُٱللَّهِثُمَّيَتَوَلَّوْنَمِنۢبَعْدِذَٰلِكَوَمَآأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَبِٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Reference 5:43Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:43:1
وَكَيْفَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَيْفَ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَيْفَ
- Without tashkeel
- وكيف
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكيف
Position
Computed- Surah
- 5 · The Table
- Verse
- 5:43
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:43:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- But how can
- Transliteration
- wakayfa
- Root
- ك ي فk-y-f
- Lemma
- كَيْف
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · REM
- كَيْفَstem · INTG · ك ي ف
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 5:43 — 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 →
But why do they come to you for judgment, when they have the Torah, in which is God’s Law? Yet they turn away after that. These are not believersHow come they unto thee for judgment when they have the Torah, wherein Allah hath delivered judgment (for them)? Yet even after that they turn away. Such (folk) are not believersBut how shall they make thee their judge, since they possess already the Law, in which are the behests of God, and have not obeyed it? After this, they will turn their backs; but such are not believersBut how should they make thee their judge, when they have the law wherein is God's judgment? Yet they turn back after that, for they do not believeSame form · 5 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَيْفَ appears 5 times in the corpus.
Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- فَكَيْفَ3:25:1
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- وَكَيْفَ3:101:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- وَكَيْفَ4:21:1
- فَكَيْفَ4:41:1
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- فَكَيْفَ4:62:1
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