أَيْدِيhands in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَانْطَلَقَ وَانْطَلَقْتُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ حَتَّى جِئْتُ أَبَا طَلْحَةَ،

  So he set off, and I moved among them until I reached Abu Talha.

  أَيْدِيهِمْ — their hands. A plural 'hands' with '-hum' (their) attached, forming the set phrase 'between their hands' that idiomatically means 'in front of them'. The suffix names whose, and the whole governs after the preceding 'between'.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →

• وَسَقَطَ فِي أَيْدِيهِمْ عِنْدَ الْحَصَادِ لَمَّا عَايَنُوا غَلَّةَ مَا بَذَرُوهُ

  And it fell into their hands at the harvest, when they saw the yield of what they had sown.

  أَيْدِيهِمْ — their hands. A plural noun with -him ('their') fused on as owner; it is genitive because the preceding 'into' governs it. Inside the idiom 'fell into their hands', it localises the regret onto the people themselves. The 'their' points to those who sowed wrongly.

  From: Ignoring God's Guidance →