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Al-Anbya 21:16

وَمَا خَلَقۡنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَمَا بَيۡنَهُمَا لَٰعِبِينَ

We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything in between for sport.

Word by word

وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
خَلَقۡنَا
khalaqnā
We created
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Root: خلق
ٱلسَّمَآءَ
l-samāa
the heavens
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Root: سمو
وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ
wal-arḍa
and the earth
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
وَمَا
wamā
and what
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بَيۡنَهُمَا
baynahumā
(is) between them
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Root: بين
لَٰعِبِينَ
lāʿibīna
(for) playing
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Root: لعب

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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.