The letter Qaaf 50:16Quranic text
وَلَقَدْخَلَقْنَاٱلْإِنسَٰنَوَنَعْلَمُمَاتُوَسْوِسُبِهِۦنَفْسُهُۥوَنَحْنُأَقْرَبُإِلَيْهِمِنْحَبْلِٱلْوَرِيدِ
Reference 50:16Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 50:16:8
نَفْسُهُۥ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- نَفْسُهُۥ Quranic text
- Simple
- نَفْسُهُ
- Without tashkeel
- نفسه
- Normalised (searchable)
- نفسه
Position
Computed- Surah
- 50 · The letter Qaaf
- Verse
- 50:16
- Word in verse
- 8
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:50:16:8
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- his soul,
- Transliteration
- nafsuhu
- Root
- ن ف سn-f-s
- Lemma
- نَفْس
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMgender: Fnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- نَفْسُstem · N · ن ف س
- هُۥsuffix · PRON
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 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 veinWe verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular veinWe created man: and we know what his soul whispereth to him, and we are closer to him than his neck-veinBut we created man, and we know what his soul whispers; for we are nigher to him than his jugular veinSame form · 2 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form نَفْسُهُۥ appears 2 times in the corpus.
Root ن ف س · 298 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ن ف س occurs 298 times across 77 distinct forms.
- أَنفُسَهُمْ2:9:8
- أَنفُسَكُمْ2:44:5
- نَفْسٌ2:48:5
- نَّفْسٍ2:48:7
- أَنفُسَكُم2:54:8
- أَنفُسَكُمْ2:54:15
- أَنفُسَهُمْ2:57:17
- نَفْسًا2:72:3
- أَنفُسَكُم2:84:9
- أَنفُسَكُمْ2:85:5
- أَنفُسُكُمُ2:87:23
- أَنفُسَهُمْ2:90:4
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