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Al-A'raf 7:117

۞وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنۡ أَلۡقِ عَصَاكَۖ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَلۡقَفُ مَا يَأۡفِكُونَ

Then We inspired Moses, “Throw down your staff,” and—behold!—it devoured the objects of their illusion!

Word by word

۞وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ
wa-awḥaynā
And We inspired
Vocabulary
Root: وحي
إِلَىٰ
ilā
to
Vocabulary
مُوسَىٰٓ
mūsā
Musa
Vocabulary
أَنۡ
an
that
Vocabulary
أَلۡقِ
alqi
Throw
Vocabulary
Root: لقي
عَصَاكَۖ
ʿaṣāka
your staff
Vocabulary
Root: عصو
فَإِذَا
fa-idhā
and suddenly
Vocabulary
هِيَ
hiya
it
Vocabulary
تَلۡقَفُ
talqafu
swallow(ed)
Vocabulary
Root: لقف
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
يَأۡفِكُونَ
yafikūna
they (were) falsifying
Vocabulary
Root: افك

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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.