قَبَضَ took in Arabic
قَبَضَ is how you say “took” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فقبضته ملائكة الرحمة
So the Angels of Mercy took him.
فَقَبَضَتْهُ So they took him
This is 'so' plus 'seized / took' with attached '-hu' = 'him', and the verb is feminine-singular because its subject 'the angels' is a non-human plural — the agreement rule. So the '-at' is grammatical, not a single female. Its subject follows.
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فلا يبقى على وجه الأرض أحد في قلبه مثقال ذرة من خير أو إيمان إلا قبضته،
No one will remain on the face of the earth with an atom's weight of goodness or faith in their heart except that the wind will take their soul.
قَبَضَتْهُ the wind will take their soul
A past verb 'seized / took', feminine because its doer (the wind, a feminine noun) is understood, with '-hu' = 'him' as object — 'it takes them'. So the cold wind carries off every soul with a speck of faith. The feminine ending tracks back to 'the wind'.
فقال الوزير أحسنت، اذهب فقد سبقك الجصاص إلى الجنة، فالقصر الذي اشتريته هو لصاحب الدار، فاذهب واقبضه منه
The minister said: Well done, go, for Al-Jassas has preceded you to Paradise, and the palace you bought belongs to the owner of the house, so go and collect it from him.
وَاقْبِضْهُ and collect it
The wa- joins this to the previous command. The verb is again an imperative, 'collect', with the attached -hu 'it' as its object mounted right on the command form.
فقال الوالي للأعرابي اذهب فاقبض ناقتك
The governor said to the Bedouin: Go and take your camel.
فَاقْبِضْ and take
This is 'and then' joined to a command 'take, seize'. The 'fa-' here links two orders in sequence, 'go and then take'. The verb is a singular imperative aimed at one male. It chains the second instruction to the first.