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Hud · Ayah 67

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And seized

وَأَخَذَ

And seized

وHarf · Conjunction

Conjunction: connects words, phrases, or clauses

and

أخذFi'l · Verb

3rd personMasculineSingularPast

Rootاخذ

★★★★Very common

to take, seize, grasp; to punish, hold accountable

Lemmaأَخَذَ

Verb (form I) - to take, to seize

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Past tense verb

وَأَخَذَ (And seized) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَأَخَذَ (And seized) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

We add "and" to connect this to what came before.

And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone

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