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Qur’an 71:16 Nuh, verse 16

وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًۭا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًۭا

And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

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

Surah
Nuh (71)
Verse
16 of 28
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
571

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
وَجَعَلَwajaʿalaAnd madeج ع ل
ٱلْقَمَرَl-qamarathe moonق م ر
فِيهِنَّfīhinnatherein
نُورًۭاnūrana lightن و ر
وَجَعَلَwajaʿalaand madeج ع ل
ٱلشَّمْسَl-shamsathe sunش م س
سِرَاجًۭاsirājana lampس ر ج

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 71:16 in Nuh.

  • 71:14وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًاWhile He has created you in stages?
  • 71:15أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَٰوَٰتٍۢ طِبَاقًۭاDo you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers
  • 71:17وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًۭاAnd Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.
  • 71:18ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًۭاThen He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

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