Root

ر-ج-ع

rjʿ·r-j-3

104 occurrences103 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَجَعَrajaʿa79—
مَرْجِعmarjiʿ16—
راجِعrājiʿ4—
رَجْعrajʿ3—
يَتَراجَعَyatarājaʿa1—
رُجْعَىrujʿā1—

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

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 Iفَعَلَ83×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • رَجَعَrajaʿa79
    • راجِعrājiʿ4
  2. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • يَتَراجَعَyatarājaʿa1

Covers 84 of this root’s 104 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 ر-ج-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ج-ع 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 95 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 21 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 62 pages — pages 246–307, juzʾ 13–16.

Occurrences · 104 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 ر-ج-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ج-ع (rjʿ) occurs 104 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 103 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 ر-ج-ع occur?

103 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ج-ع (rjʿ), out of 104 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ج-ع?

ر-ج-ع (rjʿ) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَجَعَ (rajaʿa, 79×), مَرْجِع (marjiʿ, 16×), راجِع (rājiʿ, 4×), رَجْع (rajʿ, 3×), and يَتَراجَعَ (yatarājaʿa, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.