The fourth word of verse (37:83) is divided into 2 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix and proper noun. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The proper noun is masculine and is in the accusative case (منصوب).

Chapter (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks) (37:83:4) la-ib'rāhīma (was) surely Ibrahim,
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām PN – accusative masculine proper noun → Ibrahim	اللام لام التوكيد اسم علم منصوب

Verse (37:83)

The analysis above refers to the 83rd verse of chapter 37 (sūrat l-ṣāfāt):

Sahih International: And indeed, among his kind was Abraham,

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Ibrahim - referred to by the proper noun

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