The eighth word of verse (41:17) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A resumption particle, verb and object pronoun. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person feminine singular. The verb's triliteral root is hamza khā dhāl (أ خ ذ). The attached object pronoun is third person masculine plural.

Chapter (41) sūrat fuṣṣilat (Explained in Detail) (41:17:8) fa-akhadhathum so seized them
REM – prefixed resumption particle V – 3rd person feminine singular perfect verb PRON – 3rd person masculine plural object pronoun	الفاء استئنافية فعل ماض و«هم» ضمير متصل في محل نصب مفعول به

Verse (41:17)

The analysis above refers to the seventeenth verse of chapter 41 (sūrat fuṣṣilat):

Sahih International: And as for Thamud, We guided them, but they preferred blindness over guidance, so the thunderbolt of humiliating punishment seized them for what they used to earn.

See Also

• English Translations
• Verbs, Subjects and Objects
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root hamza khā dhāl

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