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Al-Mu'minun 23:66

قَدۡ كَانَتۡ ءَايَٰتِي تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡكُمۡ فَكُنتُمۡ عَلَىٰٓ أَعۡقَٰبِكُمۡ تَنكِصُونَ

Indeed, My revelations were recited to you, but you used to back away ˹in disgust˺,

Word by word

قَدۡ
qad
Verily
Vocabulary
كَانَتۡ
kānat
were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
ءَايَٰتِي
āyātī
My Verses
Vocabulary
Root: ايي
تُتۡلَىٰ
tut'lā
recited
Vocabulary
Root: تلو
عَلَيۡكُمۡ
ʿalaykum
to you
Vocabulary
فَكُنتُمۡ
fakuntum
but you used
Vocabulary
Root: كون
عَلَىٰٓ
ʿalā
(to) on
Vocabulary
أَعۡقَٰبِكُمۡ
aʿqābikum
your heels
Vocabulary
Root: عقب
تَنكِصُونَ
tankiṣūna
turn back
Vocabulary
Root: نكص

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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.