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Al-Baqarah 2:100

أَوَكُلَّمَا عَٰهَدُواْ عَهۡدٗا نَّبَذَهُۥ فَرِيقٞ مِّنۡهُمۚ بَلۡ أَكۡثَرُهُمۡ لَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ

Why is it that every time they make a covenant, a group of them casts it aside? In fact, most of them do not believe.

Word by word

أَوَكُلَّمَا
awakullamā
And is (it not that) whenever
Vocabulary
Root: كلل
عَٰهَدُواْ
ʿāhadū
they took
Vocabulary
Root: عهد
عَهۡدٗا
ʿahdan
a covenant
Vocabulary
Root: عهد
نَّبَذَهُۥ
nabadhahu
threw it away
Vocabulary
فَرِيقٞ
farīqun
a party
Vocabulary
Root: فرق
مِّنۡهُمۚ
min'hum
of them
Vocabulary
بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
أَكۡثَرُهُمۡ
aktharuhum
most of them
Vocabulary
Root: كثر
لَا
lā
(do) not
Vocabulary
يُؤۡمِنُونَ
yu'minūna
believe
Vocabulary
Root: امن

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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.