The Heights 7:164Quranic text
وَإِذْقَالَتْأُمَّةٌمِّنْهُمْلِمَتَعِظُونَقَوْمًاٱللَّهُمُهْلِكُهُمْأَوْمُعَذِّبُهُمْعَذَابًاشَدِيدًاقَالُوا۟مَعْذِرَةًإِلَىٰرَبِّكُمْوَلَعَلَّهُمْيَتَّقُونَ
Reference 7:164Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:164:5
لِمَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لِمَ Quranic text
- Simple
- لِمَ
- Without tashkeel
- لم
- Normalised (searchable)
- لم
Position
Computed- Surah
- 7 · The Heights
- Verse
- 7:164
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:164:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- "Why
- Transliteration
- lima
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- لِprefix · P
- مَstem · INTG
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 7:164 — 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 when a group of them said, “Why do you counsel a people whom God will annihilate, or punish with a severe punishment?” They said, “As an excuse to your Lord, and so that they may become righteous.”And when a community among them said: Why preach ye to a folk whom Allah is about to destroy or punish with an awful doom, they said: In order to be free from guilt before your Lord, and that haply they may ward off (evil)And when some of them said, why warn ye those whom God would destroy or chastise with terrible chastisement? they said, For our own excuse with your Lord; and that they may fear HimAnd when a nation from amongst them said, 'Why do ye warn a people whom God would destroy, or punish with severe torment?' they said, 'As an excuse to your Lord, that haply they may fearSame form · 15 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لِمَ appears 15 times in the corpus.
- لِمَ3:65:3
- لِمَ3:70:3
- لِمَ3:71:3
- لِمَ3:98:4
- لِمَ3:99:4
- لِمَ4:77:29
- لِمَ9:43:4
- لِمَ19:42:5
- لِمَ20:125:3
- لِمَ27:46:3
- لِمَ41:21:3
- لِمَ61:2:4
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