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Ali 'Imran 3:71

يَـٰٓأَهۡلَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ لِمَ تَلۡبِسُونَ ٱلۡحَقَّ بِٱلۡبَٰطِلِ وَتَكۡتُمُونَ ٱلۡحَقَّ وَأَنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ

O  People of the Book! Why do you mix the truth with falsehood and hide the truth knowingly?

Word by word

يَـٰٓأَهۡلَ
yāahla
O People
Vocabulary
Root: اهل
ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ
l-kitābi
(of) the Book!
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
لِمَ
lima
Why
Vocabulary
تَلۡبِسُونَ
talbisūna
do you mix
Vocabulary
Root: لبس
ٱلۡحَقَّ
l-ḥaqa
the truth
Vocabulary
Root: حقق
بِٱلۡبَٰطِلِ
bil-bāṭili
with the falsehood
Vocabulary
Root: بطل
وَتَكۡتُمُونَ
wataktumūna
and conceal
Vocabulary
Root: كتم
ٱلۡحَقَّ
l-ḥaqa
the truth
Vocabulary
Root: حقق
وَأَنتُمۡ
wa-antum
while you
Vocabulary
تَعۡلَمُونَ
taʿlamūna
know
Vocabulary
Root: علم

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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.