Root

ع-ج-ب

ʿjb·3-j-b

27 occurrences24 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَعْجَبَaʿjaba11—
عَجِبُʿajibu8—
عَجَبʿajab5—
عَجِيبʿajīb2—
عُجابʿujāb1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ج-ب

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 Iفَعَلَ8×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عَجِبُʿajibu8
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ11×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَعْجَبَaʿjaba11

Covers 19 of this root’s 27 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 ع-ج-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ج-ب falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ج-ب 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 22 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 123 pages — pages 302–424, juzʾ 16–22.

Occurrences · 27 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 ع-ج-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ج-ب (ʿjb) occurs 27 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 24 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 ع-ج-ب occur?

24 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ج-ب (ʿjb), out of 27 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ج-ب?

ع-ج-ب (ʿjb) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَعْجَبَ (aʿjaba, 11×), عَجِبُ (ʿajibu, 8×), عَجَب (ʿajab, 5×), عَجِيب (ʿajīb, 2×), and عُجاب (ʿujāb, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.