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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 68:47:3

ٱلْغَيْبُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْغَيْبُ Quranic text
Simple
الْغَيْبُ
Without tashkeel
ٱلغيب
Normalised (searchable)
الغيب

Position

Computed
Surah
68 · The Pen
Verse
68:47
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:68:47:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
the unseen,
Transliteration
l-ghaybu
Root
غ ي بgh-y-b
Lemma
غَيْب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. غَيْبُstem · N · غ ي ب

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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 68:47 — 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 →

Or do they know the future, and so they write it down
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Or is the Unseen theirs that they can write (thereof)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Are the secret things within their ken? Do they copy them from the Book of God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Or have they the knowledge of the unseen, so that they write
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْغَيْبُ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Root غ ي ب · 60 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root غ ي ب occurs 60 times across 17 distinct forms.

See the full root page for غ ي ب →

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