The third word of verse (18:18) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A circumstantial particle and personal pronoun. The connective particle wa is usually translated as "while" and is used to indicate the circumstance of events. The personal pronoun is third person masculine plural.

Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave) (18:18:3) wahum while they
CIRC – prefixed circumstantial particle PRON – 3rd person masculine plural personal pronoun	الواو حالية ضمير منفصل

Verse (18:18)

The analysis above refers to the eighteenth verse of chapter 18 (sūrat l-kahf):

Sahih International: And you would think them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned them to the right and to the left, while their dog stretched his forelegs at the entrance. If you had looked at them, you would have turned from them in flight and been filled by them with terror.

See Also

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

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