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Al-Anbya 21:8

وَمَا جَعَلۡنَٰهُمۡ جَسَدٗا لَّا يَأۡكُلُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَمَا كَانُواْ خَٰلِدِينَ

We did not give those messengers ˹supernatural˺ bodies that did not need food, nor were they immortal.

Word by word

وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
جَعَلۡنَٰهُمۡ
jaʿalnāhum
We made them
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
جَسَدٗا
jasadan
bodies
Vocabulary
Root: جسد
لَّا
lā
not
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يَأۡكُلُونَ
yakulūna
eating
Vocabulary
Root: اكل
ٱلطَّعَامَ
l-ṭaʿāma
the food
Vocabulary
Root: طعم
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
خَٰلِدِينَ
khālidīna
immortals
Vocabulary
Root: خلد

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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.