The eleventh word of verse (13:38) is a perfect verb (فعل ماض). The verb is third person masculine singular. The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (كان) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها).

Chapter (13) sūrat l-raʿd (The Thunder) (13:38:11) kāna was
V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	فعل ماض

Verse (13:38)

The analysis above refers to the 38th verse of chapter 13 (sūrat l-raʿd):

Sahih International: And We have already sent messengers before you and assigned to them wives and descendants. And it was not for a messenger to come with a sign except by permission of Allah. For every term is a decree.

See Also

• English Translations
• The Verb kāna (كان واخواتها)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root kāf wāw nūn

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