The seventeenth word of verse (28:4) 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 (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories) (28:4:17) kāna was
V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	فعل ماض

Verse (28:4)

The analysis above refers to the fourth verse of chapter 28 (sūrat l-qaṣaṣ):

Sahih International: Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and made its people into factions, oppressing a sector among them, slaughtering their [newborn] sons and keeping their females alive. Indeed, he was of the corrupters.

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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