The third word of verse (12:73) is divided into 2 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix and particle of certainty. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis.

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph) (12:73:3) laqad certainly
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām CERT – particle of certainty	اللام لام التوكيد حرف تحقيق

Verse (12:73)

The analysis above refers to the 73rd verse of chapter 12 (sūrat yūsuf):

Sahih International: They said, "By Allah , you have certainly known that we did not come to cause corruption in the land, and we have not been thieves."

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word

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