ثَلَاثِينَthirty

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلِ اِشْتَرَاهُ بِثَلَاثِينَ مِثْقَالًا

  And there was a man from the Children of Israel who bought him for thirty mithqals.

  بِثَلَاثِينَ — for thirty. Preposition bi- on a number-word, in the genitive; here bi- marks the price paid. It links the buying to the sum, marking thirty as what was given in exchange.

  From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →