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Ghafir 40:37

أَسۡبَٰبَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ فَأَطَّلِعَ إِلَىٰٓ إِلَٰهِ مُوسَىٰ وَإِنِّي لَأَظُنُّهُۥ كَٰذِبٗاۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِفِرۡعَوۡنَ سُوٓءُ عَمَلِهِۦ وَصُدَّ عَنِ ٱلسَّبِيلِۚ وَمَا كَيۡدُ فِرۡعَوۡنَ إِلَّا فِي تَبَابٖ

leading up to the heavens and look for the God of Moses, although I am sure he is a liar.” And so Pharaoh’s evil deeds were made so appealing to him that he was hindered from the ˹Right˺ Way. But the plotting of Pharaoh was only in vain.

Word by word

أَسۡبَٰبَ
asbāba
(The) ways
Vocabulary
Root: سبب
ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ
l-samāwāti
(to) the heavens
Vocabulary
Root: سمو
فَأَطَّلِعَ
fa-aṭṭaliʿa
so I may look
Vocabulary
Root: طلع
إِلَىٰٓ
ilā
at
Vocabulary
إِلَٰهِ
ilāhi
(the) God
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مُوسَىٰ
mūsā
(of) Musa
Vocabulary
وَإِنِّي
wa-innī
and indeed I
Vocabulary
لَأَظُنُّهُۥ
la-aẓunnuhu
[I] surely think him
Vocabulary
كَٰذِبٗاۚ
kādhiban
(to be) a liar
Vocabulary
Root: كذب
وَكَذَٰلِكَ
wakadhālika
And thus
Vocabulary
زُيِّنَ
zuyyina
was made fair-seeming
Vocabulary
Root: زين
لِفِرۡعَوۡنَ
lifir'ʿawna
to Firaun
Vocabulary
سُوٓءُ
sūu
(the) evil
Vocabulary
Root: سوا
عَمَلِهِۦ
ʿamalihi
(of) his deed
Vocabulary
وَصُدَّ
waṣudda
and he was averted
Vocabulary
Root: صدد
عَنِ
ʿani
from
Vocabulary
ٱلسَّبِيلِۚ
l-sabīli
the way
Vocabulary
Root: سبل
وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
كَيۡدُ
kaydu
(was the) plot
Vocabulary
Root: كيد
فِرۡعَوۡنَ
fir'ʿawna
(of) Firaun
Vocabulary
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
تَبَابٖ
tabābin
ruin
Vocabulary
Root: تبب

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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.