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Surah Yusuf, Verse 47

سورة يوسف، الآية ٤٧

12:47 Juz 12 Hizb 24 Page 241 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 12:47

قَالَ تَزْرَعُونَ سَبْعَ سِنِينَ دَأَبًا فَمَا حَصَدتُّمْ فَذَرُوهُ فِى سُنۢبُلِهِۦٓ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِّمَّا تَأْكُلُونَ ۝٤٧

Transliteration

qāla tazraʿūna sabʿa sinīna da-aban famā ḥaṣadttum fadharūhu fī sunbulihi illā qalīlan mimmā takulūna

Translation

[Joseph] said, "You will plant for seven years consecutively; and what you harvest leave in its spikes, except a little from which you will eat.

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Verse 47 of Surah Yusuf (12:47), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 241 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 47

Al-Mukhtasar

Explaining this dream, Joseph said that they should plant really well for seven consecutive years. And what they harvested in each of these seven years, they should leave in the ears of corn so that it would not rot, except for a little which they needed to eat from the corn.

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Other translations of verse 47

Joseph said, “You will grow crops for seven consecutive years. But whatever you harvest, leave it in its ear, except for a little that you may eat.

[(Yûsuf (Joseph)] said: "For seven consecutive years, you shall sow as usual and that (the harvest) which you reap you shall leave it in the ears, (all) except a little of it which you may eat.

He said: Ye shall sow seven years as usual, but that which ye reap, leave it in the ear, all save a little which ye eat.

(Joseph) said: "For seven years shall ye diligently sow as is your wont: and the harvests that ye reap, ye shall leave them in the ear,- except a little, of which ye shall eat.

He said: You shall sow for seven years continuously, then what you reap leave it in its ear except a little of which you eat.

He said, "You will plant seven years after your steadfast manner; so, what you have harvested, then leave out in the ear, excepting a little of which you eat.

Verse 47 word by word

  1. قَالَ qāla He said ق و ل
  2. تَزْرَعُونَ tazraʿūna You will sow ز ر ع
  3. سَبْعَ sabʿa (for) seven س ب ع
  4. سِنِينَ sinīna years س ن و
  5. دَأَبًا da-aban as usual د أ ب
  6. فَمَا famā and that which
  7. حَصَدتُّمْ ḥaṣadttum you reap ح ص د
  8. فَذَرُوهُ fadharūhu so leave it و ذ ر
  9. فِى fī in
  10. سُنۢبُلِهِۦٓ sunbulihi its ears س ن ب ل
  11. إِلَّا illā except
  12. قَلِيلًا qalīlan a little ق ل ل
  13. مِّمَّا mimmā from which
  14. تَأْكُلُونَ takulūna you (will) eat أ ك ل

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