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Verse (24:4), Word 7 - Quranic Grammar

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The seventh word of verse (24:4) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A preposition and noun. The prefixed preposition bi is usually translated as "with" or "by". The noun is feminine and is in the genitive case (مجرور). The noun's triliteral root is rā bā ʿayn (ر ب ع). Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).

Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light)


(24:4:7)
bi-arbaʿati
four
P – prefixed preposition bi
N – genitive feminine noun
جار ومجرور

Verse (24:4)

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

Sahih International: And those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses - lash them with eighty lashes and do not accept from them testimony ever after. And those are the defiantly disobedient,

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