Root

ج-ز-ي

jzy·j-z-y

118 occurrences109 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
جَزَىjazā73
جَزاءjazā42
جِزْيَةjizyah1
جازjāz1
نُجازِيnujāzī1

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

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 Iفَعَلَ74×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • جَزَىjazā73
    • جازjāz1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • نُجازِيnujāzī1

Covers 75 of this root’s 118 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 ج-ز-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ج-ز-ي 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 95 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 30 pages — pages 3160, juzʾ 23.

Occurrences · 118 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 ج-ز-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ج-ز-ي (jzy) occurs 118 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 109 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 ج-ز-ي occur?

109 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ج-ز-ي (jzy), out of 118 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ج-ز-ي?

ج-ز-ي (jzy) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently جَزَى (jazā, 73×), جَزاء (jazā, 42×), جِزْيَة (jizyah, 1×), جاز (jāz, 1×), and نُجازِي (nujāzī, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.