The eighth word of verse (27:49) 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 and is in the genitive case (مجرور). The noun's triliteral root is wāw lām yā (و ل ي). The attached possessive pronoun is third person masculine singular. Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).

Chapter (27) sūrat l-naml (The Ants) (27:49:8) liwaliyyihi to his heir,
P – prefixed preposition lām N – genitive masculine noun PRON – 3rd person masculine singular possessive pronoun	جار ومجرور والهاء ضمير متصل في محل جر بالاضافة

Verse (27:49)

The analysis above refers to the 49th verse of chapter 27 (sūrat l-naml):

Sahih International: They said, "Take a mutual oath by Allah that we will kill him by night, he and his family. Then we will say to his executor, 'We did not witness the destruction of his family, and indeed, we are truthful.' "

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 wāw lām yā

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