أَقْرَبُ — Quran 50:16:10 · root ق ر ب

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): أَقْرَبُ Quranic text
Simple: أَقْرَبُ
Without tashkeel: أقرب
Normalised (searchable): اقرب

Position

Computed

Surah: 50 · The letter Qaaf
Verse: 50:16
Word in verse: 10
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:50:16:10

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: (are) nearer
Transliteration: aqrabu

Root: ق ر بq-r-b
Lemma: أَقْرَب
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

أَقْرَبُstem · N · ق ر ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The letter Qaaf 50:16Quranic text

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 50:16 — 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 →

We created the human being, and We know what his soul whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein

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

We verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

We created man: and we know what his soul whispereth to him, and we are closer to him than his neck-vein

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

But we created man, and we know what his soul whispers; for we are nigher to him than his jugular vein

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 9 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَقْرَبُ appears 9 times in the corpus.

Root ق ر ب · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ر ب occurs 96 times across 37 distinct forms.

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