نَصَبَstood firm

Example sentences

• نصبوا إذا إنتصبوا فنصبت لهم السرر،

  They stood firm when they arose, so couches were raised for them,

  نَصَبُوا — they stood firm. A past-tense verb with a built-in masculine-plural 'they' subject; the doers are carried inside the verb. It reports a completed standing firm, the plural ending marking the human group acting in the line.

  From: Rain and God's Decree →

• وكلما نصب إبليس لي شركًا خرقت ذلك الشرك،

  Every time Satan set a trap for me, I destroyed that trap.

  نَصَبَ — he set. A past-tense verb placed before its named subject, 'Satan'. Verb-then-doer is the default Arabic order, and the singular masculine form agrees with that single following subject.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →