The seventh word of verse (24:12) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A preposition, noun and possessive pronoun. The prefixed preposition bi is usually translated as "with" or "by". The noun is feminine plural and is in the genitive case (مجرور). The noun's triliteral root is nūn fā sīn (ن ف س). The attached possessive pronoun is third person masculine plural. Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).

Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light) (24:12:7) bi-anfusihim good of themselves
P – prefixed preposition bi N – genitive feminine plural noun PRON – 3rd person masculine plural possessive pronoun	جار ومجرور و«هم» ضمير متصل في محل جر بالاضافة

Verse (24:12)

The analysis above refers to the twelfth verse of chapter 24 (sūrat l-nūr):

Sahih International: Why, when you heard it, did not the believing men and believing women think good of one another and say, "This is an obvious falsehood"?

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 nūn fā sīn

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