Root

ز-و-ج

zwj·z-w-j

81 occurrences72 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
زَوْجzawj76
زُوِّجَتْzuwwijat5

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ز-و-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 68 of 604 pages (11%)

Densest in juzʾ 22 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 58 pages — pages 88145, juzʾ 58.

Occurrences · 81 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 ز-و-ج appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ز-و-ج (zwj) occurs 81 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 72 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 ز-و-ج occur?

72 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ز-و-ج (zwj), out of 81 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ز-و-ج?

ز-و-ج (zwj) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently زَوْج (zawj, 76×) and زُوِّجَتْ (zuwwijat, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.