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Grammarians and commentators disagree about the syntactic role of "asbātan" in the verse "…wa Qaṭṭa’nāhum Ithnatay ‘Ashrata Asbāṭan…" (وَ قَطَّعْناهُمُ اثْنَتَیْ عَشْرَةَ أَسْباطا) Al-Aʿrāf:160). They have proposed several roles for it. Based on Arabic rules, nouns after eleven to ninety-nine must be singular and accusative. In the above verse, "asbāṭan" ((أسباطاً) is placed after the number twelve must follow this rule and be singular, while it is plural which is incompatible with Arabic grammar. Four grammatical roles are mentioned for it in syntactic sources and interpretations. Christoph Luxenberg, the author of the book "Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Qur'an", has claimed that the grammatical role of "asbaṭan" is a determination of specification (التمییز) not according to the Arabic grammar, but to the Syriac grammar. He believes that the reason for the disagreement of commentators and grammarians about the role of "asbāṭan" (أسباطاً) is their unfamiliarity with Syriac Aramaic language and its influence on the Arabic language and the Qur'an. The current research has reviewed Luxenberg's point of view with the library method and comparative approach. Although there are some similarities between Syriac and Arabic grammar, the results indicate that Luxenberg's claim is not true.