← Al-Qasas
28:8
Al-Qasas · Ayah 8
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Translation
Then picked him up
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
فَٱلْتَقَطَهُۥٓ (Then picked him up) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Verb form VIII — reflexive
فَٱلْتَقَطَهُۥٓ (Then picked him up) uses form VIII (إِفْتَعَلَ) — it means doing the action for yourself or by yourself.
We translate it as "to [verb] for oneself".
Sahih International
And the family of Pharaoh picked him up [out of the river] so that he would become to them an enemy and a [cause of] grief. Indeed, Pharaoh and Hāmān and their soldiers were deliberate sinners.
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