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Verse (6:140), Word 4 - Quranic Grammar

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The fourth word of verse (6:140) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is qāf tā lām (ق ت ل). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (6) sūrat l-anʿām (The Cattle)


(6:140:4)
qatalū
killed
V – 3rd person masculine plural perfect verb
PRON – subject pronoun
فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (6:140)

The analysis above refers to the 140th verse of chapter 6 (sūrat l-anʿām):

Sahih International: Those will have lost who killed their children in foolishness without knowledge and prohibited what Allah had provided for them, inventing untruth about Allah. They have gone astray and were not [rightly] guided.

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