Root

ع-ج-ز

ʿjz·3-j-z

26 occurrences25 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مُعْجِزmuʿjiz12—
يُعْجِزَyuʿjiza4—
عَجُوزʿajūz4—
مُعاجِزmuʿājiz3—
أَعْجازaʿjāz2—
عَجَزْʿajaz1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ج-ز

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عَجَزْʿajaz1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ3×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • مُعاجِزmuʿājiz3
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ16×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُعْجِزmuʿjiz12
    • يُعْجِزَyuʿjiza4

Covers 20 of this root’s 26 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ع-ج-ز more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ج-ز falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ج-ز occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 24 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 111 pages — pages 1–111, juzʾ 1–6.

Occurrences · 26 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ع-ج-ز appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ج-ز (ʿjz) occurs 26 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 25 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ع-ج-ز occur?

25 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ج-ز (ʿjz), out of 26 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ج-ز?

ع-ج-ز (ʿjz) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مُعْجِز (muʿjiz, 12×), يُعْجِزَ (yuʿjiza, 4×), عَجُوز (ʿajūz, 4×), مُعاجِز (muʿājiz, 3×), and أَعْجاز (aʿjāz, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.