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Maryam 19:12

يَٰيَحۡيَىٰ خُذِ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ بِقُوَّةٖۖ وَءَاتَيۡنَٰهُ ٱلۡحُكۡمَ صَبِيّٗا

˹It was later said,˺ “O John! Hold firmly to the Scriptures.” And We granted him wisdom while ˹he was still˺ a child,

Word by word

يَٰيَحۡيَىٰ
yāyaḥyā
O Yahya!
Vocabulary
خُذِ
khudhi
Hold
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ
l-kitāba
the Scripture
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
بِقُوَّةٖۖ
biquwwatin
with strength
Vocabulary
Root: قوي
وَءَاتَيۡنَٰهُ
waātaynāhu
And We gave him
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
ٱلۡحُكۡمَ
l-ḥuk'ma
[the] wisdom
Vocabulary
Root: حكم
صَبِيّٗا
ṣabiyyan
(when he was) a child
Vocabulary
Root: صبو

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.