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Qur’an 105:5 Al-Fil, verse 5

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

And He made them like eaten straw.

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah: Al-Fil (105)
Verse: 5 of 5
Revealed: Makki
Juz: 30
Mushaf page: 601

Word by word

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning	Root
فَجَعَلَهُمْ	fajaʿalahum	Then He made them	ج ع ل
كَعَصْفٍۢ	kaʿaṣfin	like straw	ع ص ف
مَّأْكُولٍۭ	makūlin	eaten up	أ ك ل

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 105:5 in Al-Fil.

105:3وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَAnd He sent against them birds in flocks,
105:4تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢStriking them with stones of hard clay,

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