The third word of verse (19:42) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A preposition, noun and possessive pronoun. The prefixed preposition lām is usually translated as "for". The noun is masculine singular and is in the genitive case (مجرور). The noun's triliteral root is hamza bā wāw (أ ب و). The attached possessive pronoun is third person masculine singular. Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).

Chapter (19) sūrat maryam (Mary) (19:42:3) li-abīhi to his father,
P – prefixed preposition lām N – genitive masculine singular noun PRON – 3rd person masculine singular possessive pronoun	جار ومجرور والهاء ضمير متصل في محل جر بالاضافة

Verse (19:42)

The analysis above refers to the 42nd verse of chapter 19 (sūrat maryam):

Sahih International: [Mention] when he said to his father, "O my father, why do you worship that which does not hear and does not see and will not benefit you at all?

See Also

• English Translations
• Preposition Phrases
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root hamza bā wāw

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