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47 times in the Quran · 10 word forms · rank 209
The Quran root ع ج ل ʿ-j-l
Words built from the root ع ج ل ([ʿ-j-l]) appear 47 times in the Quran. The most common is اسْتَعْجَلَ, “you seek to hasten”, which comes 19 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| اسْتَعْجَلَ | astaʿjala | you seek to hasten · they ask you to hasten | 19 | |
| عِجْل | ʿijl | calf · calf's | 10 | |
| عَجِلَ | ʿajila | hasten · Were you impatient | 5 | |
| عَجَّلَ | ʿajjala | hastens · We hasten | 5 | |
| عاجِلَة | ʿaajila | immediate | 3 | |
| تَعَجَّلَ | taʿajjala | hurries | 1 | |
| اسْتِعْجال | astiʿjaal | He hastens for them | 1 | |
| عَجُول | ʿajuul | ever hasty | 1 | |
| أَعْجَلَ | aʿjala | made you hasten | 1 | |
| عَجَل | ʿajal | haste | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
قُلْ إِنِّي عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّي وَكَذَّبْتُم بِهِ مَا عِندِي مَا تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ بِهِ إِنِ الْحُكْمُ إِلَّا لِلَّهِ يَقُصُّ الْحَقَّ وَهُوَ خَيْرُ الْفَاصِلِينَ ٥٧
تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ tastaʿjilūna · you seek to hasten
Say, "Indeed, I am on clear evidence from my Lord, and you have denied it. I do not have that for which you are impatient. The decision is only for Allāh. He relates the truth, and He is the best of deciders." (Surah Al-An'am, 6:57)
قُل لَّوْ أَنَّ عِندِي مَا تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ بِهِ لَقُضِيَ الْأَمْرُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِالظَّالِمِينَ ٥٨
تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ tastaʿjilūna · you seek to hasten
Say, "If I had that for which you are impatient, the matter would have been decided between me and you, but Allāh is most knowing of the wrongdoers." (Surah Al-An'am, 6:58)
وَإِذْ وَاعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ اتَّخَذْتُمُ الْعِجْلَ مِن بَعْدِهِ وَأَنتُمْ ظَالِمُونَ ٥١
الْعِجْلَ l-ʿij'la · the calf
And [recall] when We made an appointment with Moses for forty nights. Then you took [for worship] the calf after him [i.e., his departure], while you were wrongdoers. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:51)
وَلَمَّا رَجَعَ مُوسَىٰ إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ غَضْبَانَ أَسِفًا قَالَ بِئْسَمَا خَلَفْتُمُونِي مِن بَعْدِي أَعَجِلْتُمْ أَمْرَ رَبِّكُمْ وَأَلْقَى الْأَلْوَاحَ وَأَخَذَ بِرَأْسِ أَخِيهِ يَجُرُّهُ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ ابْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَكَادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي فَلَا تُشْمِتْ بِيَ الْأَعْدَاءَ وَلَا تَجْعَلْنِي مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ ١٥٠
أَعَجِلْتُمْ aʿajil'tum · Were you impatient
And when Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said, "How wretched is that by which you have replaced me after [my departure]. Were you impatient over the matter of your Lord?" And he threw down the tablets and seized his brother by [the hair of] his head, pulling him toward him. [Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, indeed the people overpowered me and were about to kill me, so let not the enemies rejoice over me and do not place me among the wrongdoing people." (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:150)
وَلَوْ يُعَجِّلُ اللَّهُ لِلنَّاسِ الشَّرَّ اسْتِعْجَالَهُم بِالْخَيْرِ لَقُضِيَ إِلَيْهِمْ أَجَلُهُمْ فَنَذَرُ الَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَاءَنَا فِي طُغْيَانِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ ١١
يُعَجِّلُ yuʿajjilu · hastens
And if Allāh was to hasten for the people the evil [they invoke] as He hastens for them the good, their term would have been ended for them. But We leave the ones who do not expect the meeting with Us, in their transgression, wandering blindly. (Surah Yunus, 10:11)
مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْعَاجِلَةَ عَجَّلْنَا لَهُ فِيهَا مَا نَشَاءُ لِمَن نُّرِيدُ ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا لَهُ جَهَنَّمَ يَصْلَاهَا مَذْمُومًا مَّدْحُورًا ١٨
الْعَاجِلَةَ l-ʿājilata · the immediate
Whoever should desire the immediate - We hasten for him from it what We will to whom We intend. Then We have made for him Hell, which he will [enter to] burn, censured and banished. (Surah Al-Isra, 17:18)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 5×
- Surah Yunus · 4×
- Surah Taha · 4×
- Surah Adh-Dhariyat · 3×
- Surah Al-A'raf · 3×
- Surah Al-Isra · 3×
Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.