Then We revived you after your death that perhaps you would be grateful.
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Grammar, phrase by phrase
ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَـٰكُم
(Then We revived you)
Root بعث — to send, raise up, resurrect · 67 times in the Quran
ثُمَّword 1
Particle · حرفA particle is a small helper word with no meaning standing alone; it takes no ending and does not name or act. ثُمَّ is such a helper word here. L1 · R8
Conjunction · حرف عطفA conjunction is a small joining word that ties statements together; ثُمَّ means 'then', joining with a step in time: first the thunderbolt, THEN the raising back to life. L4 · R4
بَعَثْنَـٰكُمword 2
Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action tied to a time. بَعَثْ names an action — raising up, reviving — from the root بعث, to send, raise up, resurrect. L1 · R7
Past Tense Verb · فعل ماضٍA past tense verb describes an action already completed, and who did it is shown by an ending added to the verb. The ending نَٰ — the 'We' marker — sits on بَعَثْنَٰكُم: 'We revived', already done. L8 · R2
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word glued onto the end of another word. Two are stacked on this verb: نَٰ standing for 'We' and كُم standing for 'you all' — one written word carries who raised and who was raised. L3 · R7
Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action, standing in the nominative — the doer's form, usually a ḍammah ـُ, a small curl above the last letter. The ending نَٰ is that doer, 'We'; an attached pronoun keeps one fixed shape, so no ḍammah appears, but the role it fills is the nominative one. L9 · R4
Direct Object · مفعول بهThe direct object is the one the action lands on, standing in the accusative — the landed-on form, usually a fathah ـَ, a small stroke above the letter. The ending كُم 'you all' is whom the reviving reached; a pronoun's written shape is fixed, so no fathah appears — the accusative is the role it fills. L9 · R5
Allah said, 'Remember My favor on you for resurrecting you after you were seized with lightning when you asked to see Me directly' — this was said by Ibn Jurayj; Allah brought them back to life one man at a time, while the rest were watching.
Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:56
So far: “Then We revived you”
مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ
(…after your death)
Root بعد — after, distance, remoteness · 235 times in the Quran
Root موت — to die, expire · 165 times in the Quran
مِّنۢword 3
Particle · حرفA particle is a small helper word with no meaning standing alone; it takes no ending and does not name or act. مِّنۢ is such a helper word here. L1 · R8
Preposition · حرف جرA preposition is a little word that relates one thing to another and pulls the naming word after it into the genitive — the after-preposition ending, usually a kasrah ـِ, a small stroke below the last letter. مِنْ 'from' is one of the common prepositions, here opening the time phrase 'after your death'. L4 · R2
بَعْدِword 4
Noun · اسمA word whose final vowel mark changes with its job in the sentence is a noun, a naming word. بَعْدِ names a time relation — 'after' — from the root بعد: after, distance, remoteness. L1 · R5
Genitive · مجرورThe genitive is the ending a naming word takes after a preposition, shown by a kasrah ـِ — a small slanted stroke below the last letter. بَعْدِ carries that kasrah ـِ because مِّنۢ stands before it. L2 · R12
مَوْتِكُمْword 5
Noun · اسمA word whose final vowel mark changes with its job in the sentence is a noun, a naming word. مَوْتِ names death, from the root موت, to die, expire. L1 · R5
Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every naming word as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. This word carries no feminine marker such as a ة at its end, so it falls to the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3
Genitive · مجرورThe genitive is the ending a naming word takes as the owner in an 'of' phrase, shown by a kasrah ـِ — a small slanted stroke below the last letter. مَوْتِ carries that kasrah ـِ. L2 · R12
Possessive (Idafa) · مضاف إليهA possessive (iḍāfah) chains naming words into an 'of' phrase where the owner comes second in the genitive — the owner's ending, a kasrah ـِ below the last letter — and such chains can nest: مَوْتِ is the owner after بَعْدِ ('after OF-death'), shown by its kasrah ـِ, and the ending كُمْ is in turn the owner of مَوْتِ ('the death OF you'); a pronoun keeps one fixed shape, so its genitive is the role it fills. L5 · R7
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word glued onto the end of another word. The ending كُمْ on مَوْتِكُمْ is such a suffix, standing for 'your': YOUR death. L3 · R7
Ar-Rabi' bin Anas said, 'Death was their punishment, and they were resurrected after they died so they could finish out their lives.'
Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:56
لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
(…that perhaps you would be grateful.)
Root شكر — gave thanks, became grateful · 75 times in the Quran
لَعَلَّكُمْword 6
Accusative Particle (إنّ) · حرف مشبه بالفعللَعَلَّ — one of the family of particles that sit before a topic-plus-comment sentence, each carrying the doubling shaddah ـّ, seen here on its لَّ — expresses hope or expectation, 'perhaps / so that'; in Allah's speech it typically reveals the purpose behind His act: you were revived SO THAT you might be grateful. L15 · R8
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word glued onto the end of another word. The ending كُمْ on لَعَلَّكُمْ stands for 'you all' — the ones the hope is spoken over; this particle family pushes its topic into the accusative, the form usually shown by a fathah ـَ, a small stroke above the letter, but a pronoun keeps one fixed shape, so the accusative is the role it fills. L3 · R7
تَشْكُرُونَword 7
Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action tied to a time. تَشْكُرُ names an action — giving thanks — from the root شكر: gave thanks, became grateful. L1 · R7
Present Tense Verb · فعل مضارعA present tense verb is identified by one of the four prefix letters remembered as أَنَيْتُ. تَشْكُرُونَ opens with the prefix تَ — the letter for 'you' — always standing before the root letters: a thankfulness hoped for, ongoing. L8 · R3
The Five Verbs · الأفعال الخمسةThe Five Verbs are the five present tense shapes ending in نَ, where that نَ itself shows the mood: kept in the normal mood, dropped after trimming words. تَشْكُرُونَ is the 'you all do' shape with its نَ kept. L10 · R10
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word glued onto the end of a verb. The ending ونَ on تَشْكُرُونَ is such a suffix, standing for 'you all'. L3 · R7
Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action, standing in the nominative — the doer's form, usually a ḍammah ـُ, a small curl above the last letter. The و in the ending ونَ names the doers of the hoped-for thanking, 'you all'; a pronoun keeps one fixed shape, so no ḍammah appears — the nominative is the role it fills. L9 · R4
So far: “Then We revived you after your death that perhaps you would be grateful.”