Root

أ-ج-ر

jr·2-j-r

108 occurrences99 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَجْرajr105—
اسْتَأْجَرْāstaʾjar2—
تَأْجُرَtaʾjura1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-ج-ر

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • تَأْجُرَtaʾjura1
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ2×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَأْجَرْāstaʾjar2

Covers 3 of this root’s 108 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-ج-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-ج-ر 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 86 of 604 pages (14%)

Densest in juzʾ 19 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 62 pages — pages 303–364, juzʾ 16–19.

Occurrences · 108 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 أ-ج-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ج-ر (jr) occurs 108 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 99 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 أ-ج-ر occur?

99 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ج-ر (jr), out of 108 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ج-ر?

أ-ج-ر (jr) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَجْر (ajr, 105×), اسْتَأْجَرْ (āstaʾjar, 2×), and تَأْجُرَ (taʾjura, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.