Al-A'raf
7:127

Al-A'raf · Ayah 127

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Translation

And said

Word Breakdown

وَقَالَ

And said

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

قَالَFi'l · Verb
3rd personMasculineSingularPast
Rootقول
Very common

to say, speak, tell

Lemmaقَالَ

Verb (form I) - to say

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb
وَقَالَ (And said) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Sahih International

And the eminent among the people of Pharaoh said, "Will you leave Moses and his people to cause corruption in the land and abandon you and your gods?" [Pharaoh] said, "We will kill their sons and keep their women alive; and indeed, we are subjugators over them."

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