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ف-ج-ر

Fa-Jim-Ra

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Fa-Jim-Ra (ف-ج-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: fajr (dawn / daybreak).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 24 times in 21 verses, across 16 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:60. The form فَجْرٌ (dawn / daybreak) accounts for 6 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
فَجْرٌ
fajr
dawn / daybreaknoun, A16×The Natural World in the Quran

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

۞ وَإِذِ ٱسْتَسْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِۦ فَقُلْنَا ٱضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلْحَجَرَ ۖ فَٱنفَجَرَتْ مِنْهُ ٱثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًا ۖ قَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٍ مَّشْرَبَهُمْ ۖ كُلُوا۟ وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ مِن رِّزْقِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ

And when Moses asked for water for his people, We said: Smite with thy staff the rock. And there gushed out therefrom twelve springs (so that) each tribe knew their drinking-place. Eat and drink of that which Allah hath provided, and do not act corruptly, making mischief in the earth.

Quran 2:60
أَقِمِ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ لِدُلُوكِ ٱلشَّمْسِ إِلَىٰ غَسَقِ ٱلَّيْلِ وَقُرْءَانَ ٱلْفَجْرِ ۖ إِنَّ قُرْءَانَ ٱلْفَجْرِ كَانَ مَشْهُودًا

Establish worship at the going down of the sun until the dark of night, and (the recital of) the Qur'an at dawn. Lo! (the recital of) the Qur'an at dawn is ever witnessed.

Quran 17:78
وَقَالُوا۟ لَن نُّؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ يَنۢبُوعًا

And they say: We will not put faith in thee till thou cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us;

Quran 17:90

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A1noun
فَجْرٌ
fajr

dawn / daybreak

Example
وَالْفَجْرِ وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ
wal-fajri wa-layālin ʿashr
By the dawn and the ten nights (89:1-2)
Grammar

Masculine noun. Surah al-Fajr (89) is named after it. Also refers to the Fajr prayer time. Related: اِنْفَجَرَ (to burst forth).

Culture

The Fajr prayer is the first of the five daily prayers. The Quran uses dawn as a symbol of hope and new beginnings.

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