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Al-Baqarah 2:9

يُخَٰدِعُونَ ٱللَّهَ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَمَا يَخۡدَعُونَ إِلَّآ أَنفُسَهُمۡ وَمَا يَشۡعُرُونَ

They seek to deceive Allah and the believers, yet they only deceive themselves, but they fail to perceive it.

Word by word

يُخَٰدِعُونَ
yukhādiʿūna
They seek to deceive
Vocabulary
Root: خدع
ٱللَّهَ
l-laha
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
وَٱلَّذِينَ
wa-alladhīna
and those who
Vocabulary
ءَامَنُواْ
āmanū
believe[d]
Vocabulary
Root: امن
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
يَخۡدَعُونَ
yakhdaʿūna
they deceive
Vocabulary
Root: خدع
إِلَّآ
illā
except
Vocabulary
أَنفُسَهُمۡ
anfusahum
themselves
Vocabulary
Root: نفس
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
يَشۡعُرُونَ
yashʿurūna
they realize (it)
Vocabulary
Root: شعر

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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.