فَمَا اسْطَاعُوا أَنْ يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا اسْتَطَاعُوا لَهُ نَقْبًا

Word by Word (2021) Translation

So not they were able to scale it and not they were able in it (to do) any penetration.

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Muhammad Asad

And thus [the rampart was built, and] their enemies were unable to scale it, and neither were they able to pierce it

Arthur John Arberry

So they were unable either to scale it or pierce it

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

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

Arabic

فَمَا ٱسۡطَـٰعُوۤا۟ أَن یَظۡهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسۡتَطَـٰعُوا۟ لَهُۥ نَقۡبࣰا ۝٩٧

Transliteration (2021)

famā is'ṭāʿū an yaẓharūhu wamā is'taṭāʿū lahu naqba

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