The fourteenth word of verse (30:47) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A conjunction and verb. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine singular. The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (كان) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها).

Chapter (30) sūrat l-rūm (The Romans) (30:47:14) wakāna And it was
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	الواو عاطفة فعل ماض

Verse (30:47)

The analysis above refers to the 47th verse of chapter 30 (sūrat l-rūm):

Sahih International: And We have already sent messengers before you to their peoples, and they came to them with clear evidences; then We took retribution from those who committed crimes, and incumbent upon Us was support of the believers.

See Also

• English Translations
• The Verb kāna (كان واخواتها)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root kāf wāw nūn

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