Root

ع-ج-ل

ʿjl·3-j-l

47 occurrences44 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اسْتَعْجَلَāstaʿjala19—
عِجْلʿijl10—
عَجِلَʿajila5—
عَجَّلَʿajjala5—
عاجِلَةʿājilah3—
تَعَجَّلَtaʿajjala1—
اسْتِعْجالāstiʿjāl1—
عَجُولʿajūl1—
أَعْجَلَaʿjala1—
عَجَلʿajal1—

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

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

    • عَجِلَʿajila5
    • عاجِلَةʿājilah3
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ5×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • عَجَّلَʿajjala5
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَعْجَلَaʿjala1
  4. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَعَجَّلَtaʿajjala1
  5. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ20×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَعْجَلَāstaʿjala19
    • اسْتِعْجالāstiʿjāl1

Covers 35 of this root’s 47 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-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ج-ل 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 36 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 69 pages — pages 33–101, juzʾ 2–5.

Occurrences · 47 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-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ج-ل (ʿjl) occurs 47 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 44 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-ل occur?

44 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ج-ل (ʿjl), out of 47 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ج-ل?

ع-ج-ل (ʿjl) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اسْتَعْجَلَ (āstaʿjala, 19×), عِجْل (ʿijl, 10×), عَجِلَ (ʿajila, 5×), عَجَّلَ (ʿajjala, 5×), and عاجِلَة (ʿājilah, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.