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Al-A'raf 7:116

قَالَ أَلۡقُواْۖ فَلَمَّآ أَلۡقَوۡاْ سَحَرُوٓاْ أَعۡيُنَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَٱسۡتَرۡهَبُوهُمۡ وَجَآءُو بِسِحۡرٍ عَظِيمٖ

Moses said, “You first.” So when they did, they deceived the eyes of the people, stunned them, and made a great display of magic.

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَلۡقُواْۖ
alqū
Throw
Vocabulary
Root: لقي
فَلَمَّآ
falammā
Then when
Vocabulary
أَلۡقَوۡاْ
alqaw
they threw
Vocabulary
Root: لقي
سَحَرُوٓاْ
saḥarū
they bewitched
Vocabulary
Root: سحر
أَعۡيُنَ
aʿyuna
(the) eyes
Vocabulary
Root: عين
ٱلنَّاسِ
l-nāsi
(of) the people
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
وَٱسۡتَرۡهَبُوهُمۡ
wa-is'tarhabūhum
and terrified them
Vocabulary
Root: رهب
وَجَآءُو
wajāū
and came (up)
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
بِسِحۡرٍ
bisiḥ'rin
with a magic
Vocabulary
Root: سحر
عَظِيمٖ
ʿaẓīmin
great
Vocabulary
Root: عظم

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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.