Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:173:13

بِمَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): بِمَا Quranic text
Simple: بِمَا
Without tashkeel: بما
Normalised (searchable): بما

Position

Computed

Surah: 7 · The Heights
Verse: 7:173
Word in verse: 13
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:173:13

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: for what
Transliteration: bimā

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: ما
Part of speech: Relative pronoun (REL)
Features: —

Sub-word segments

بِprefix · P
مَاstem · REL

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Heights 7:173Quranic text

أَوْ تَقُولُوٓا۟إِنَّمَآ أَشْرَكَ ءَابَآؤُنَا مِن قَبْلُ وَكُنَّا ذُرِّيَّةً مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ أَفَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ ٱلْمُبْطِلُونَ

← أَفَتُهْلِكُنَا 7:173:12 فَعَلَ 7:173:14 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 7:173 — 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 →

Nor can you Say, “Our ancestors practiced idolatry before; and we are their descendants who came after them; will you destroy us for what the falsifiers did?”

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

Or lest ye should say: (It is) only (that) our fathers ascribed partners to Allah of old and we were (their) seed after them. Wilt Thou destroy us on account of that which those who follow falsehood did

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Or lest ye should say, "Our fathers, indeed, aforetime joined other gods with our God, and we are their seed after them: wilt thou destroy us for the doings of vain men

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

or say, 'Verily, our fathers associated others with God before us, and we were but their seed after them: wilt Thou then destroy us for what vaindoers did

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 253 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بِمَا appears 253 times in the corpus.

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