Hafiz soon
Hud · 11:67
And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone
Sahih International
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وَأَخَذَ
wa-akhadha
And seized
Word breakdown
و
Harf · Conjunctionand
أخذ
Fi'l · VerbAnd seized
RootاخذAx*
to take, seize, grasp; to punish, hold accountable
273× in the Quran · Common
LemmaأَخَذَVerb (form I) - to take, to seize
Grammar rules
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.
Lesson 8 · Verbs — Past & PresentConjunction 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.
Lesson 4 · Particles