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Ali 'Imran 3:187

وَإِذۡ أَخَذَ ٱللَّهُ مِيثَٰقَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ لَتُبَيِّنُنَّهُۥ لِلنَّاسِ وَلَا تَكۡتُمُونَهُۥ فَنَبَذُوهُ وَرَآءَ ظُهُورِهِمۡ وَٱشۡتَرَوۡاْ بِهِۦ ثَمَنٗا قَلِيلٗاۖ فَبِئۡسَ مَا يَشۡتَرُونَ

˹Remember, O  Prophet,˺ when Allah took the covenant of those who were given the Scripture to make it known to people and not hide it, yet they cast it behind their backs and traded it for a fleeting gain. What a miserable profit!

Word by word

وَإِذۡ
wa-idh
And when
Vocabulary
أَخَذَ
akhadha
took
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مِيثَٰقَ
mīthāqa
a Covenant
Vocabulary
Root: وثق
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
(from) those who
Vocabulary
أُوتُواْ
ūtū
were given
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ
l-kitāba
the Book
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
لَتُبَيِّنُنَّهُۥ
latubayyinunnahu
You certainly make it clear
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لِلنَّاسِ
lilnnāsi
to the mankind
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
وَلَا
walā
and (do) not
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تَكۡتُمُونَهُۥ
taktumūnahu
conceal it
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فَنَبَذُوهُ
fanabadhūhu
Then they threw it
Vocabulary
Root: نبذ
وَرَآءَ
warāa
behind
Vocabulary
Root: وري
ظُهُورِهِمۡ
ẓuhūrihim
their backs
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Root: ظهر
وَٱشۡتَرَوۡاْ
wa-ish'taraw
and they exchanged
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Root: شري
بِهِۦ
bihi
[with] it
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ثَمَنٗا
thamanan
(for) a price
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Root: ثمن
قَلِيلٗاۖ
qalīlan
little
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Root: قلل
فَبِئۡسَ
fabi'sa
And wretched
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Root: باس
مَا
mā
(is) what
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يَشۡتَرُونَ
yashtarūna
they purchase
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Root: شري

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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.