The first word of verse (17:16) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A conjunction and time adverb. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and".

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey) (17:16:1) wa-idhā And when
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) T – time adverb	الواو عاطفة ظرف زمان

Verse (17:16)

The analysis above refers to the sixteenth verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā):

Sahih International: And when We intend to destroy a city, We command its affluent but they defiantly disobey therein; so the word comes into effect upon it, and We destroy it with [complete] destruction.

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word

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