Root

و-ج-ه

wjh·w-j-h

78 occurrences71 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَجْهwajh72
وَجِيهwajīh2
وَجَّهْwajjah2
وِجْهَةwijhah1
تَوَجَّهَtawajjaha1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ج-ه

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 IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • وَجَّهْwajjah2
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَوَجَّهَtawajjaha1

Covers 3 of this root’s 78 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 و-ج-ه more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-ج-ه falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ج-ه 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 61 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 33 pages — pages 428460, juzʾ 2223.

Occurrences · 78 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 و-ج-ه appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ج-ه (wjh) occurs 78 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 71 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 و-ج-ه occur?

71 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ج-ه (wjh), out of 78 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ج-ه?

و-ج-ه (wjh) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَجْه (wajh, 72×), وَجِيه (wajīh, 2×), وَجَّهْ (wajjah, 2×), وِجْهَة (wijhah, 1×), and تَوَجَّهَ (tawajjaha, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.