The Inevitable 56:47Quranic text
وَكَانُوا۟يَقُولُونَأَئِذَامِتْنَاوَكُنَّاتُرَابًاوَعِظَٰمًاأَءِنَّالَمَبْعُوثُونَ
Reference 56:47Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 56:47:1
وَكَانُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَانُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَانُوا
- Without tashkeel
- وكانوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكانوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 56 · The Inevitable
- Verse
- 56:47
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:56:47:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- And they used (to)
- Transliteration
- wakānū
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
- وا۟suffix · PRON
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In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 56:47 — 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 →
And they used to say, “When we are dead and turned into dust and bones, are we to be resurrectedAnd they used to say: When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised againAnd were wont to say, "What! after we have died, and become dust and bones, shall we be raisedand used to say, 'What, when we die and have become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raisedSame form · 30 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَانُوا۟ appears 30 times in the corpus.
- وَكَانُوا۟2:89:10
- وَكَانُوا۟5:44:21
- وَكَانُوا۟6:159:5
- وَكَانُوا۟7:133:11
- وَكَانُوا۟7:136:9
- وَكَانُوا۟7:146:34
- وَكَانُوا۟7:148:21
- وَكَانُوا۟10:63:3
- وَكَانُوا۟10:75:12
- وَكَانُوا۟11:116:25
- وَكَانُوا۟12:20:6
- وَكَانُوا۟12:57:6
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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