The second word of verse (37:30) 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 (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks) (37:30:2) kāna was
V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	فعل ماض

Verse (37:30)

The analysis above refers to the 30th verse of chapter 37 (sūrat l-ṣāfāt):

Sahih International: And we had over you no authority, but you were a transgressing people.

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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