سَخَّرَهَا عَلَیۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَیَالࣲ وَثَمَـٰنِیَةَ أَیَّامٍ حُسُومࣰاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِیهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِیَةࣲ ۝٧
sakharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wathamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyati
Abdel Haleem: that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks

Interlinear Analysis

1
sakharahā
سَخَّرَ
Root: س خ ر
Verb
2
ʿalayhim
عَلَى
Root: ع ل ي
Prep.
3
sabʿa
سَبْع
Root: س ب ع
Noun
4
layālin
لَيْل
Root: ل ي ل
Noun
5
wathamāniyata
ثَمانِيَة
Root: ث م ن
Noun
6
ayyāmin
يَوْم
Root: ي و م
Noun
7
ḥusūman
حُسُوم
Root: ح س م
Noun
8
fatarā
رَأَى
Root: ر أ ي
Verb
9
l-qawma
قَوْم
Root: ق و م
Noun
10
fīhā
فِي
Root: ف ي
Prep.
11
ṣarʿā
صَرْعَى
Root: ص ر ع
Noun
12
ka-annahum
كَأَنّ
Root: ك ا ن
Prep.
13
aʿjāzu
أَعْجاز
Root: ع ج ز
Noun
14
nakhlin
نَخْل
Root: ن خ ل
Noun
15
khāwiyatin
خاوِيَة
Root: خ و ي
Noun