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Qur’an 74:23 Al-Muddaththir, verse 23

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ

Then he turned back and was arrogant

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

Surah
Al-Muddaththir (74)
Verse
23 of 56
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
576

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
ثُمَّthummaThen
أَدْبَرَadbarahe turned backد ب ر
وَٱسْتَكْبَرَwa-is'takbaraand was proudك ب ر

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 74:23 in Al-Muddaththir.

  • 74:21ثُمَّ نَظَرَThen he considered [again];
  • 74:22ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَبَسَرَThen he frowned and scowled;
  • 74:24فَقَالَ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌۭ يُؤْثَرُAnd said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others].
  • 74:25إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا قَوْلُ ٱلْبَشَرِThis is not but the word of a human being."

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