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Al-Baqarah 2:51

وَإِذۡ وَٰعَدۡنَا مُوسَىٰٓ أَرۡبَعِينَ لَيۡلَةٗ ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذۡتُمُ ٱلۡعِجۡلَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمۡ ظَٰلِمُونَ

And ˹remember˺ when We appointed forty nights for Moses, then you worshipped the calf in his absence, acting wrongfully.

Word by word

وَإِذۡ
wa-idh
And when
Vocabulary
وَٰعَدۡنَا
wāʿadnā
We appointed
Vocabulary
Root: وعد
مُوسَىٰٓ
mūsā
(for) Musa
Vocabulary
أَرۡبَعِينَ
arbaʿīna
forty
Vocabulary
Root: ربع
لَيۡلَةٗ
laylatan
nights
Vocabulary
Root: ليل
ثُمَّ
thumma
Then
Vocabulary
ٱتَّخَذۡتُمُ
ittakhadhtumu
you took
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
ٱلۡعِجۡلَ
l-ʿij'la
the calf
Vocabulary
Root: عجل
مِنۢ
min
from
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بَعۡدِهِۦ
baʿdihi
after him
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وَأَنتُمۡ
wa-antum
and you
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ظَٰلِمُونَ
ẓālimūna
(were) wrongdoers
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم

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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.