The Spoils of War 8:15Quranic text
يَٰٓأَيُّهَاٱلَّذِينَءَامَنُوٓا۟إِذَالَقِيتُمُٱلَّذِينَكَفَرُوا۟زَحْفًافَلَاتُوَلُّوهُمُٱلْأَدْبَارَ
Reference 8:15Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:15:8
زَحْفًا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- زَحْفًا Quranic text
- Simple
- زَحْفًا
- Without tashkeel
- زحفا
- Normalised (searchable)
- زحفا
Position
Computed- Verse
- 8:15
- Word in verse
- 8
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:15:8
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- advancing,
- Transliteration
- zaḥfan
- Root
- ز ح فz-hh-f
- Lemma
- زَحْف
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M
Sub-word segments
- زَحْفًاstem · N · ز ح ف
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 8:15 — 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 →
O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve on the march, never turn your backs on themO ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to themO ye who believe! when ye meet the marshalled hosts of the infidels, turn not your backs to themO ye who believe! when ye meet those who misbelieve in swarms, turn not to them your hinder partsSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ز ح ف · 1 occurrence
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ز ح ف occurs 1 time across 1 distinct form.
See the full root page for ز ح ف →Cited by 0 investigations
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