Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:156:9

قَبْلِنَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): قَبْلِنَا Quranic text
Simple: قَبْلِنَا
Without tashkeel: قبلنا
Normalised (searchable): قبلنا

Position

Computed

Surah: 6 · The Cattle
Verse: 6:156
Word in verse: 9
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:156:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: before us,
Transliteration: qablinā

Root: ق ب لq-b-l
Lemma: قَبْل
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: GEN

Sub-word segments

قَبْلِstem · N · ق ب ل
نَاsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cattle 6:156Quranic text

أَن تَقُولُوٓا۟إِنَّمَآ أُنزِلَ ٱلْكِتَٰبُ عَلَىٰ طَآئِفَتَيْنِ مِن قَبْلِنَا وَإِن كُنَّا عَن دِرَاسَتِهِمْ لَغَٰفِلِينَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 6:156 — 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 →

Lest you say, “The Scripture was revealed to two parties before us, and we were unaware of their teachings.”

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

Lest ye should say: The Scripture was revealed only to two sects before us, and we in sooth were unaware of what they read

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Lest ye should say, "The Scriptures were indeed sent down only unto two peoples before us, but we were not able to go deep into their studies

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Lest ye say, 'The Book was only sent down to two sects before us; verily, we, for what they read, care naught

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَبْلِنَا appears 2 times in the corpus.

قَبْلِنَا2:286:30

Root ق ب ل · 294 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ب ل occurs 294 times across 62 distinct forms.

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