The fourteenth word of verse (7:163) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A noun and possessive pronoun. The noun is masculine plural and is in the nominative case (مرفوع). The noun's triliteral root is ḥā wāw tā (ح و ت). The attached possessive pronoun is third person masculine plural.

Chapter (7) sūrat l-aʿrāf (The Heights) (7:163:14) ḥītānuhum their fish
N – nominative masculine plural noun → Fish PRON – 3rd person masculine plural possessive pronoun	اسم مرفوع و«هم» ضمير متصل في محل جر بالاضافة

Verse (7:163)

The analysis above refers to the 163rd verse of chapter 7 (sūrat l-aʿrāf):

Sahih International: And ask them about the town that was by the sea - when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath - when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient.

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Dependency Graph - visual syntax (i'rāb) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root ḥā wāw tā
• Fish - referred to by the noun

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FS 19th July, 2011 The noun here is feminine as it is a plural of an original masculine word. The verb before it is in the feminine form too. N- nominative feminine plural noun wallahu a'alam

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