Root

و-ل-ج

wlj·w-l-j

14 occurrences9 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يُولِجُyūliju10
يَلِجَyalija3
وَلِيجَةwalījah1

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

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَلِجَyalija3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ10×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُولِجُyūliju10

Covers 13 of this root’s 14 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-ل-ج more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ل-ج 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 8 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 22 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 149 pages — pages 190338, juzʾ 1017.

Occurrences · 14 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-ل-ج appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ل-ج (wlj) occurs 14 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 9 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-ل-ج occur?

9 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ل-ج (wlj), out of 14 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ل-ج?

و-ل-ج (wlj) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يُولِجُ (yūliju, 10×), يَلِجَ (yalija, 3×), and وَلِيجَة (walījah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.