Home Quran Quran roots ر ج ز
10 times in the Quran · 2 word forms · rank 570
The Quran root ر ج ز r-j-z
Words built from the root ر ج ز ([r-j-z]) appear 10 times in the Quran. The most common is رِجْز, “punishment”, which comes 9 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| رِجْز | rijz | punishment · torment | 9 | |
| رُجْز | rujz | uncleanliness | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا قَوْلًا غَيْرَ الَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا رِجْزًا مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْسُقُونَ ٥٩
رِجْزًا rij'zan · a punishment
But those who wronged changed [those words] to a statement other than that which had been said to them, so We sent down upon those who wronged a punishment [i.e., plague] from the sky because they were defiantly disobeying. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:59)
وَلَمَّا وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّجْزُ قَالُوا يَا مُوسَى ادْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ بِمَا عَهِدَ عِندَكَ لَئِن كَشَفْتَ عَنَّا الرِّجْزَ لَنُؤْمِنَنَّ لَكَ وَلَنُرْسِلَنَّ مَعَكَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ ١٣٤
الرِّجْزُ l-rij'zu · the punishment
And when the punishment descended upon them, they said, "O Moses, invoke for us your Lord by what He has promised you. If you [can] remove the punishment from us, we will surely believe you, and we will send with you the Children of Israel." (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:134)
وَالرُّجْزَ فَاهْجُرْ ٥
وَالرُّجْزَ wal-ruj'za · And uncleanliness
And uncleanliness avoid. (Surah Al-Muddaththir, 74:5)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-A'raf · 4×
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 1×
- Surah Al-Anfal · 1×
- Surah Al-'Ankabut · 1×
- Surah Saba · 1×
- Surah Al-Jathiyah · 1×
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.
