26 times in the Quran · 6 word forms · rank 343

The Quran root ع ج ز ʿ-j-z

Words built from the root ع ج ز ([ʿ-j-z]) appear 26 times in the Quran. The most common is مُعْجِز, “escape”, which comes 12 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
مُعْجِز	muʿjiz	escape · will be able to escape	12
يُعْجِزَ	yuʿjiza	escape · that can escape Him	4
عَجُوز	ʿajuuz	old woman	4
مُعاجِز	muʿaajiz	cause failure	3
أَعْجاز	aʿjaaz	trunks	2
عَجَزْ	ʿajaz	Am I unable	1

Examples from the Quran

إِنَّ مَا تُوعَدُونَ لَآتٍ وَمَا أَنتُم بِمُعْجِزِينَ ١٣٤

بِمُعْجِزِينَ bimuʿ'jizīna · escape (it)

Indeed, what you are promised is coming, and you will not cause failure [to Allāh]. (Surah Al-An'am, 6:134)

فَسِيحُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّكُمْ غَيْرُ مُعْجِزِي اللَّهِ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ مُخْزِي الْكَافِرِينَ ٢

مُعْجِزِي muʿ'jizī · escape

So travel freely, [O disbelievers], throughout the land [during] four months but know that you cannot cause failure to Allāh and that Allāh will disgrace the disbelievers. (Surah At-Tawbah, 9:2)

وَلَا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا سَبَقُوا إِنَّهُمْ لَا يُعْجِزُونَ ٥٩

يُعْجِزُونَ yuʿ'jizūna · escape

And let not those who disbelieve think they will escape. Indeed, they will not cause failure [to Allāh]. (Surah Al-Anfal, 8:59)

قَالَتْ يَا وَيْلَتَىٰ أَأَلِدُ وَأَنَا عَجُوزٌ وَهَٰذَا بَعْلِي شَيْخًا إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَشَيْءٌ عَجِيبٌ ٧٢

عَجُوزٌ ʿajūzun · an old woman

She said, "Woe to me! Shall I give birth while I am an old woman and this, my husband, is an old man? Indeed, this is an amazing thing!" (Surah Hud, 11:72)

وَالَّذِينَ سَعَوْا فِي آيَاتِنَا مُعَاجِزِينَ أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَحِيمِ ٥١

مُعَاجِزِينَ muʿājizīna · (to) cause failure

But the ones who strove against Our verses, [seeking] to cause failure - those are the companions of Hellfire. (Surah Al-Hajj, 22:51)

تَنزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ ٢٠

أَعْجَازُ aʿjāzu · trunks

Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted. (Surah Al-Qamar, 54:20)

Surahs where it comes most

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.