هُمُ
A word in the Arabic language will either be 1) a verb or 2) a noun or 3) a particle – هُمُ is a noun
A noun may either be 1) Definite or indefinite 2) Masculine or feminine 3) Singular, dual or plural 4) Nominative, accusative, genitive or fixed
هُمُ is a suffix (a word added to the back of a word), a possessive pronoun of the third person, masculine, plural
هُمُ is the attached pronoun هُم and takes a dammah due to the definite noun following it in a sentence
Means ‘them’ when used as an affix after a verb or preposition
Means ‘their’ when used as an affix after a noun
| Grammatical analysis of هُمُ |
| ضَمِيْرٌ مُتَّصِلٌ مَبْنِيٌّ عَلَى السُّكُوْنِ |
| مَعْرِفَةٌ | جَمْعٌ | مُذَكَّرٌ | مَنْصُوْبٌ | مَجْرُوْرٌ | هم | اَلْغَائِبُ | ضَمِيْرٌ | مَبْنِيٌّ | اِسْمٌ | ضَمِيْرٌ مُتَّصِلٌ |
| Definite | Plural | Masculine | Accusative | Genitive | Root | Them | Pronoun | Fixed | Noun | Attached pronoun |
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| Surah/ | Below are the 2+ verses in the holy Quran containing the plural, masculine suffix | هُمُ |
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| 1 | ||
| 1 | ||
| Not were those who disbelieved from the people of the book and the polytheists | لَمْ يَكُنِ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوْا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَالْمُشْرِكِيْنَ مُنْفَكِّيْنَ | |
| 98-1 | to be freed until the clear evidence comes to them | حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ |
| 98-4 | And those who were given the book differed not until after clear evidence came to them | وَمَا تَفَرَّقَ الَّذِيْنَ أُوْتُوْا الْكِتَابَ إِلَّا مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَائَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ |
Valuable resources:
هُمُ Corpus.Quran.com
Dictionary of the holy Quran by Abdul Mannan Omar