The Uses Of But "Laken" in Surat Al-Baqarah

(A Grammatical And Semantic Study)

Abstract

The importance of the research lies in the fact that it deals with a grammatical judgment related to the use of but "Laken", the images of its advent, its meanings in Surat Al-Baqarah, and the grammarians’ opinions about it. The research aims to know the origin of the word but "Laken", its action, the images of its coming, and the sayings of the grammarians in that, and to extract the verses that were mentioned but "Laken" (stressed and unstressed) in Surat Al-Baqarah, and to clarify its significance. The research depended on the descriptive-analytical approach, which is based on extrapolating grammatical rulings in the but "Laken", the images of their use, and the clarification of the meanings learned from them, through the application in Surat Al-Baqarah, and mention of the grammarians’ opinions, and their weighting with justification, and the explanation of the reasons. The research found that but "Laken" was mentioned in Surat Al-Baqarah fifteen times, all of which were preceded by the waw, and it was divided into seven stressed and eight unstressed places. The grammarians’ sayings in waw varied between overloading, resuming. realizing, conjunction, status, interceptor. The grammarians’ were divided between those who said that the waw is the conjunction, and those who said that but "Laken" is the conjunction.