The Poets 26:45

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Arabic English Morphology
Then threw V
Musa Noun
عَصَاهُ ʿaṣāhu
his staff Noun
فَإِذَا fa-idhā
and behold Noun
هِىَ hiya
It Noun
swallowed V
مَا
what Noun
they falsified V

But Moses threw his staff and- lo and behold!- it swallowed up their tricker

— Abdel Haleem

Arabic Text

فَأَلۡقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِیَ تَلۡقَفُ مَا یَأۡفِكُونَ ۝٤٥

fa-alqā mūsā ʿaṣāhu fa-idhā hiya talqafu mā yafikūn