The Most High 87:16Quranic text
بَلْتُؤْثِرُونَٱلْحَيَوٰةَٱلدُّنْيَا
Reference 87:16quran:tanzil-uthmani:87:16:2Sub-word segments
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بَلْتُؤْثِرُونَٱلْحَيَوٰةَٱلدُّنْيَا
Reference 87:16These translations render verse 87:16 — 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 →
But you prefer the present lifeBut ye prefer the life of the worldBut ye prefer this present lifeNay! but ye prefer the life of this worldThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
The root أ ث ر occurs 21 times across 15 distinct forms.
No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.