بِكُمْby you

Example sentences

• فَيُقَدِّمُونَكُمْ فَتَصِلُونَ الْقِتَالَ فَيَكُونُ الْقَتْلُ بِكُمْ

  They will send you forward, then you will reach the fighting, and the killing will be by you.

  بكم — by you. This is the preposition 'with/by' fused to 'you (plural)', and here it marks the addressees as the ones who bear the killing, an agent-like 'on you'. The preposition pins the consequence onto them. The attached pronoun is why one word equals 'by you'.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• فَتَصِلُونَ الْقِتَالَ فَيَكُونُ الْقَتْلُ بِكُمْ

  So you will join the fighting, and the killing will be by you.

  بِكُمْ — by you. This is the preposition 'with/by' fused to 'you (plural)', marking the addressees as the ones who bear the killing, an agent-like 'on you'. The preposition pins the consequence onto them. The attached pronoun is why one word equals 'by you'.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →