Root

ن-ج-و

njw·n-j-w

84 occurrences75 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
نَجَّىnajjā37
أَنجَىanjā23
نَجْوَىnajwā11
تَناجَيْtanājay4
نَجاnajā2
نَجِيّnajiyy2
مُنَجُّوmunajjū2
ناجnāj1
نَجاةnajāh1
ناجَيْnājay1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ج-و

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • نَجاnajā2
    • ناجnāj1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ39×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • نَجَّىnajjā37
    • مُنَجُّوmunajjū2
  3. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • ناجَيْnājay1
  4. Form IVأَفْعَلَ23×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَنجَىanjā23
  5. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ4×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَناجَيْtanājay4

Covers 70 of this root’s 84 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 ن-ج-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ن-ج-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ج-و 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 63 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 28 (13 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 88 pages — pages 996, juzʾ 15.

Occurrences · 84 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 ن-ج-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ج-و (njw) occurs 84 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 75 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 ن-ج-و occur?

75 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ج-و (njw), out of 84 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ج-و?

ن-ج-و (njw) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently نَجَّى (najjā, 37×), أَنجَى (anjā, 23×), نَجْوَى (najwā, 11×), تَناجَيْ (tanājay, 4×), and نَجا (najā, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.