The second word of verse (37:123) is a proper noun in the genitive case (مجرور). The case marker is a fatḥah instead of a kasrah because the proper noun is a diptote (ممنوع من الصرف).

Chapter (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks) (37:123:2) il'yāsa Elijah
PN – genitive proper noun → Elijah	اسم علم مجرور بالفتحة بدلاً من الكسرة لأنه ممنوع من الصرف

Verse (37:123)

The analysis above refers to the 123rd verse of chapter 37 (sūrat l-ṣāfāt):

Sahih International: And indeed, Elias was from among the messengers,

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Elijah - referred to by the proper noun

2 messages

	hr 3rd August, 2011 Why is this genitive instead of accusative? It follows the accusative particle inna
	Abdul Rahman 7th August, 2011 You are right. It is accusative. Needs to be corrected.

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