The Spoils of War 8:17Quranic text
فَلَمْتَقْتُلُوهُمْوَلَٰكِنَّٱللَّهَقَتَلَهُمْوَمَارَمَيْتَإِذْرَمَيْتَوَلَٰكِنَّٱللَّهَرَمَىٰوَلِيُبْلِىَٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَمِنْهُبَلَآءًحَسَنًاإِنَّٱللَّهَسَمِيعٌعَلِيمٌ
Reference 8:17Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:17:2
تَقْتُلُوهُمْ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- تَقْتُلُوهُمْ Quranic text
- Simple
- تَقْتُلُوهُمْ
- Without tashkeel
- تقتلوهم
- Normalised (searchable)
- تقتلوهم
Position
Computed- Verse
- 8:17
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:17:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- you kill them,
- Transliteration
- taqtulūhum
- Root
- ق ت لq-t-l
- Lemma
- قَتَلَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: IMPFmood: JUSperson: 2gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- تَقْتُلُstem · V · ق ت ل
- وsuffix · PRON
- هُمْsuffix · 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 8:17 — 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 →
It was not you who killed them, but it was God who killed them. And it was not you who launched when you launched, but it was God who launched. That He may bestow upon the believers an excellent reward. God is Hearing and KnowingYe (Muslims) slew them not, but Allah slew them. And thou (Muhammad) threwest not when thou didst throw, but Allah threw, that He might test the believers by a fair test from Him. Lo! Allah is Hearer, KnowerSo it was not ye who slew them, but God slew them; and those shafts were God's, not thine! He would make trial of the faithful by a gracious trial from Himself: Verily, God Heareth, KnowethYe did not slay them, but it was God who slew them; nor didst thou shoot when thou didst shoot, but God did shoot, to try the believers from Himself with a goodly trial; verily, God both hears and knowsSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ق ت ل · 170 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ق ت ل occurs 170 times across 108 distinct forms.
- فَٱقْتُلُوٓا۟2:54:14
- وَيَقْتُلُونَ2:61:51
- قَتَلْتُمْ2:72:2
- تَقْتُلُونَ2:85:4
- تَقْتُلُونَ2:87:28
- تَقْتُلُونَ2:91:23
- يُقْتَلُ2:154:4
- ٱلْقَتْلَى2:178:8
- وَقَٰتِلُوا۟2:190:1
- يُقَٰتِلُونَكُمْ2:190:6
- وَٱقْتُلُوهُمْ2:191:1
- ٱلْقَتْلِ2:191:11
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