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An-Najm 53:9

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوۡسَيۡنِ أَوۡ أَدۡنَىٰ

that he was only two arms-lengths away or even less.

Word by word

فَكَانَ
fakāna
And was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
قَابَ
qāba
(at) a distance
Vocabulary
Root: قوب
قَوۡسَيۡنِ
qawsayni
(of) two bow-(lengths)
Vocabulary
Root: قوس
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
أَدۡنَىٰ
adnā
nearer
Vocabulary
Root: دنو

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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.