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Taha 20:66

قَالَ بَلۡ أَلۡقُواْۖ فَإِذَا حِبَالُهُمۡ وَعِصِيُّهُمۡ يُخَيَّلُ إِلَيۡهِ مِن سِحۡرِهِمۡ أَنَّهَا تَسۡعَىٰ

Moses responded, “No, you go first.” And suddenly their ropes and staffs appeared to him—by their magic—to be slithering.

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
أَلۡقُواْۖ
alqū
you throw
Vocabulary
Root: لقي
فَإِذَا
fa-idhā
Then behold!
Vocabulary
حِبَالُهُمۡ
ḥibāluhum
Their ropes
Vocabulary
Root: حبل
وَعِصِيُّهُمۡ
waʿiṣiyyuhum
and their staffs
Vocabulary
Root: عصو
يُخَيَّلُ
yukhayyalu
seemed
Vocabulary
Root: خيل
إِلَيۡهِ
ilayhi
to him
Vocabulary
مِن
min
by
Vocabulary
سِحۡرِهِمۡ
siḥ'rihim
their magic
Vocabulary
Root: سحر
أَنَّهَا
annahā
that they
Vocabulary
تَسۡعَىٰ
tasʿā
(were) moving
Vocabulary
Root: سعي

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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.