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Al-A'raf · Ayah 117
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Translation
And We inspired
Word Breakdown
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
۞ وَأَوْحَيْنَآ (And We inspired) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Verb form IV — causative
۞ وَأَوْحَيْنَآ (And We inspired) uses form IV (أَفْعَلَ) — the أ at the start makes it causative ("to make someone do something").
We translate it as "to make [someone] do" or "to cause [action]".
Conjunction وَ (and)
۞ وَأَوْحَيْنَآ (And We inspired) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Sahih International
And We inspired to Moses, "Throw your staff," and at once it devoured what they were falsifying.
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