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As-Saffat 37:10

إِلَّا مَنۡ خَطِفَ ٱلۡخَطۡفَةَ فَأَتۡبَعَهُۥ شِهَابٞ ثَاقِبٞ

But whoever manages to stealthily eavesdrop is ˹instantly˺ pursued by a piercing flare.

Word by word

إِلَّا
illā
Except
Vocabulary
مَنۡ
man
(him) who
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خَطِفَ
khaṭifa
snatches
Vocabulary
Root: خطف
ٱلۡخَطۡفَةَ
l-khaṭfata
(by) theft
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Root: خطف
فَأَتۡبَعَهُۥ
fa-atbaʿahu
but follows him
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شِهَابٞ
shihābun
a burning flame
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Root: شهب
ثَاقِبٞ
thāqibun
piercing
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Root: ثقب

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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.