The eleventh word of verse (16:70) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A preposition and subordinating conjunction. The prefixed preposition lām is usually translated as "for". Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).

Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees) (16:70:11) likay so that
P – prefixed preposition lām SUB – subordinating conjunction	جار ومجرور

Verse (16:70)

The analysis above refers to the 70th verse of chapter 16 (sūrat l-naḥl):

Sahih International: And Allah created you; then He will take you in death. And among you is he who is reversed to the most decrepit [old] age so that he will not know, after [having had] knowledge, a thing. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Competent.

See Also

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

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