The Cattle 6:159Quranic text
إِنَّٱلَّذِينَفَرَّقُوا۟دِينَهُمْوَكَانُوا۟شِيَعًالَّسْتَمِنْهُمْفِىشَىْءٍإِنَّمَآأَمْرُهُمْإِلَىٱللَّهِثُمَّيُنَبِّئُهُمبِمَاكَانُوا۟يَفْعَلُونَ
Reference 6:159Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:159:5
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
- 6 · The Cattle
- Verse
- 6:159
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:159:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and become
- 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
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 6:159 — 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 →
As for those who divided their religion and became sects—you have nothing to do with them. Their case rests with God; then He will inform them of what they used to doLo! As for those who sunder their religion and become schismatics, no concern at all hast thou with them. Their case will go to Allah, Who then will tell them what they used to doAs to those who split up their religion and become sects, have thou nothing to do with them: their affair is with God only. Hereafter shall he tell them what they have doneVerily, those who divided their religion and became sects, thou hast not to do with them, their matter is in God's hands, He will yet inform them of that which they have doneSame form · 30 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَانُوا۟ appears 30 times in the corpus.
- وَكَانُوا۟2:89:10
- وَكَانُوا۟5:44:21
- 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
- وَكَانُوا۟15:82:1
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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