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The Quran root س ج ن s-j-n

Words built from the root س ج ن ([s-j-n]) appear 12 times in the Quran. The most common is سِجْن, “prison”, which comes 6 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

WordSay itMeaningTimes
سِجْنsijnprison6
يُسْجَنَyusjanahe be imprisoned · he will be imprisoned3
سِجِّينsijjiinSijjin2
مَسْجُونmasjuunthose imprisoned1

Examples from the Quran

قَالَ رَبِّ السِّجْنُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا يَدْعُونَنِي إِلَيْهِ وَإِلَّا تَصْرِفْ عَنِّي كَيْدَهُنَّ أَصْبُ إِلَيْهِنَّ وَأَكُن مِّنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ ٣٣

السِّجْنُ l-sij'nu · the prison

He said, "My Lord, prison is more to my liking than that to which they invite me. And if You do not avert from me their plan, I might incline toward them and [thus] be of the ignorant." (Surah Yusuf, 12:33)

وَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ السِّجْنَ فَتَيَانِ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا إِنِّي أَرَانِي أَعْصِرُ خَمْرًا وَقَالَ الْآخَرُ إِنِّي أَرَانِي أَحْمِلُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِي خُبْزًا تَأْكُلُ الطَّيْرُ مِنْهُ نَبِّئْنَا بِتَأْوِيلِهِ إِنَّا نَرَاكَ مِنَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ ٣٦

السِّجْنَ l-sij'na · (in) the prison

And there entered the prison with him two young men. One of them said, "Indeed, I have seen myself [in a dream] pressing [grapes for] wine." The other said, "Indeed, I have seen myself carrying upon my head [some] bread, from which the birds were eating. Inform us of its interpretation; indeed, we see you to be of those who do good." (Surah Yusuf, 12:36)

وَاسْتَبَقَا الْبَابَ وَقَدَّتْ قَمِيصَهُ مِن دُبُرٍ وَأَلْفَيَا سَيِّدَهَا لَدَى الْبَابِ قَالَتْ مَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ أَرَادَ بِأَهْلِكَ سُوءًا إِلَّا أَن يُسْجَنَ أَوْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ٢٥

يُسْجَنَ yus'jana · he be imprisoned

And they both raced to the door, and she tore his shirt from the back, and they found her husband at the door. She said, "What is the recompense of one who intended evil for your wife but that he be imprisoned or a painful punishment?" (Surah Yusuf, 12:25)

كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ ٧

سِجِّينٍ sijjīnin · Sijjin

No! Indeed, the record of the wicked is in sijjeen. (Surah Al-Mutaffifin, 83:7)

قَالَ لَئِنِ اتَّخَذْتَ إِلَٰهًا غَيْرِي لَأَجْعَلَنَّكَ مِنَ الْمَسْجُونِينَ ٢٩

الْمَسْجُونِينَ l-masjūnīna · those imprisoned

[Pharaoh] said, "If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned." (Surah Ash-Shu'ara, 26:29)

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.