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Verse (24:4), Word 9 - Quranic Grammar

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The ninth word of verse (24:4) is divided into 4 morphological segments. A resumption particle, verb, subject pronoun and object pronoun. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The imperative verb (فعل أمر) is second person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is jīm lām dāl (ج ل د). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun. The attached object pronoun is third person masculine plural.

Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light)


(24:4:9)
fa-ij'lidūhum
then flog them
REM – prefixed resumption particle
V – 2nd person masculine plural imperative verb
PRON – subject pronoun
PRON – 3rd person masculine plural object pronoun
الفاء استئنافية
فعل أمر والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل و«هم» ضمير متصل في محل نصب مفعول به

Verse (24:4)

The analysis above refers to the fourth verse of chapter 24 (sūrat l-nūr):

Sahih International: And those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses - lash them with eighty lashes and do not accept from them testimony ever after. And those are the defiantly disobedient,

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