The Spoils of War 8:57Quranic text
فَإِمَّاتَثْقَفَنَّهُمْفِىٱلْحَرْبِفَشَرِّدْبِهِممَّنْخَلْفَهُمْلَعَلَّهُمْيَذَّكَّرُونَ
Reference 8:57Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:57:8
خَلْفَهُمْ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- خَلْفَهُمْ Quranic text
- Simple
- خَلْفَهُمْ
- Without tashkeel
- خلفهم
- Normalised (searchable)
- خلفهم
Position
Computed- Verse
- 8:57
- Word in verse
- 8
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:57:8
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (are) behind them,
- Transliteration
- khalfahum
- Root
- خ ل فkh-l-f
- Lemma
- خَلْف
- Part of speech
- Location adverb (LOC)
- Features
- case: ACCgender: M
Sub-word segments
- خَلْفَstem · LOC · خ ل ف
- 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 8:57 — 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 →
If you confront them in battle, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them, that they may take heedIf thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may rememberIf thou take them in war, then, by the example of their fate, scatter those who shall follow them - that they may be warnedbut shouldst thou ever catch them in war, then make those who come after them run by their example, haply they may remember thenSame form · 6 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form خَلْفَهُمْ appears 6 times in the corpus.
Root خ ل ف · 127 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root خ ل ف occurs 127 times across 69 distinct forms.
- خَلِيفَةً2:30:9
- خَلْفَهَا2:66:7
- يُخْلِفَ2:80:14
- يَخْتَلِفُونَ2:113:31
- وَٱخْتِلَٰفِ2:164:6
- ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟2:176:9
- ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟2:213:18
- ٱخْتَلَفَ2:213:21
- ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟2:213:38
- ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟2:253:36
- خَلْفَهُمْ2:255:32
- يُخْلِفُ3:9:12
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