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فَمَا ٱسْطَـٰعُوٓا۟ أَن يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسْتَطَـٰعُوا۟ لَهُۥ نَقْبًا

Word by word

فَمَا

So not

Preposition

ٱسْطَٰعُوٓا۟

they were able

Verb

أَن

Preposition

يَظْهَرُوهُ

scale it

Verb

وَمَا

and not

Preposition

ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟

they were able

Verb

لَهُۥ

in it

Preposition

نَقْبًا

(to do) any penetration

Noun

Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to dig through it.

A. Yusuf Ali · EN · public-domain

Artık Ye'cuc ve Me'cuc bu seti ne aşabildiler ne de delebildiler.

(Artık Ye’cûc ve Me’cûc) o (seddi) ne aşabilmiş ne de onu delebilmişlerdi.

Mehmet Okuyan · TR · all-rights-reserved

And (Gog and Magog) were not able to surmount, nor could they pierce (it).

M. Pickthall · EN · public-domain