Text of verse 20:78
فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ فِرْعَوْنُ بِجُنُودِهِۦ فَغَشِيَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْيَمِّ مَا غَشِيَهُمْ ٧٨
Transliteration
fa-atbaʿahum fir'ʿawnu bijunūdihi faghashiyahum mina l-yami mā ghashiyahum
Translation
So Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, and there covered them from the sea that which covered them,845
Notes [845] i.e., not only the water but that which only Allāh knows - terror, pain, regret, etc.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 78 of Surah Taha (20:78), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 317 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 78
Al-Mukhtasar
Then Pharoah, accompanied by his armies, followed them. Then he and his armies were engulfed by part of the sea, the reality of which only Allah knows. They all drowned and perished, whilst Moses and those with him were saved.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Taha
Other translations of verse 78
Then Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, but they were completely overwhelmed by the sea21 .
Notes [21] i.e., not only drowning in water but other things which are only known to Allah such as terror, pain, regret, etc.
Then Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) pursued them with his hosts, but the sea-water completely overwhelmed them and covered them up.
Then Pharaoh followed them with his hosts and there covered them that which did cover them of the sea.
Then Pharaoh pursued them with his forces, but the waters completely overwhelmed them and covered them up.
And Firon followed them with his armies, so there came upon them of the sea that which came upon them.
Then Firaawn (pharaoh) followed them up with his hosts, yet they were enveloped by the main in that (manner) of enveloping.
Verse 78 word by word
فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ
fa-atbaʿahum Then followed them ت ب ع
فِرْعَوْنُ
fir'ʿawnu Firaun
بِجُنُودِهِۦ
bijunūdihi with his forces ج ن د
فَغَشِيَهُم
faghashiyahum but covered them غ ش و
مِّنَ
mina from
ٱلْيَمِّ
l-yami the sea ي م م
مَا
mā what
غَشِيَهُمْ
ghashiyahum covered them غ ش و
Hadiths that cite this verse
Authentic
Sahih al-Bukhari 4737
نَحْنُ أَوْلَى بِمُوسَى مِنْهُمْ فَصُومُوهُ "
Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbās
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