The Heights 7:148Quranic text
وَٱتَّخَذَقَوْمُمُوسَىٰمِنۢبَعْدِهِۦمِنْحُلِيِّهِمْعِجْلًاجَسَدًالَّهُۥخُوَارٌأَلَمْيَرَوْا۟أَنَّهُۥلَايُكَلِّمُهُمْوَلَايَهْدِيهِمْسَبِيلًاٱتَّخَذُوهُوَكَانُوا۟ظَٰلِمِينَ
Reference 7:148Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:148:21
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
- 7 · The Heights
- Verse
- 7:148
- Word in verse
- 21
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:148:21
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and they were
- 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 · CIRC
- 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 7:148 — 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 →
In his absence, the people of Moses adopted a calf made from their ornaments—a body which lowed. Did they not see that it could not speak to them, nor guide them in any way? They took it for worship. They were in the wrongAnd the folk of Moses, after (he left them), chose a calf (for worship), (made) out of their ornaments, of saffron hue, which gave a lowing sound. Saw they not that it spake not unto them nor guided them to any way? They chose it, and became wrong-doersAnd the people of Moses took during his absence a calf made of their ornaments, and ruddy like gold, and lowing. Saw they not that it could not speak to them, nor guide them in the way? Yet they took if for a God and became offendersAnd Moses' people after him took to themselves of their ornaments a corporeal calf that lowed; did they not see that it could not speak with them, nor could it guide them in the path? They took it and they were unjustSame 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
- 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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