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ج-ز-ي

Jim-Zay-Ya

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Jim-Zay-Ya (ج-ز-ي) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: jazāʾ (recompense / requital / reward or punishment).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 118 times in 109 verses, across 47 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:48. The form جَزَاءٌ (recompense / requital / reward or punishment) accounts for 42 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
جَزَاءٌ
jazāʾ
recompense / requital / reward or punishmentnoun, A242×Reward, Recompense, and Deeds

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

In the Quran

وَٱتَّقُوا۟ يَوْمًا لَّا تَجْزِى نَفْسٌ عَن نَّفْسٍ شَيْـًٔا وَلَا يُقْبَلُ مِنْهَا شَفَـٰعَةٌ وَلَا يُؤْخَذُ مِنْهَا عَدْلٌ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ

And guard yourselves against a day when no soul will in aught avail another, nor will intercession be accepted from it, nor will compensation be received from it, nor will they be helped.

Quran 2:48
أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ جَزَآؤُهُمْ أَنَّ عَلَيْهِمْ لَعْنَةَ ٱللَّهِ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ وَٱلنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ

As for such, their guerdon is that on them rests the curse of Allah and of angels and of men combined.

Quran 3:87
قَـٰتِلُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَلَا بِٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ وَلَا يُحَرِّمُونَ مَا حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَلَا يَدِينُونَ دِينَ ٱلْحَقِّ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ حَتَّىٰ يُعْطُوا۟ ٱلْجِزْيَةَ عَن يَدٍ وَهُمْ صَـٰغِرُونَ

Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.

Quran 9:29

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

A2noun
جَزَاءٌ
jazāʾ

recompense / requital / reward or punishment

Example
هَلْ جَزَاءُ الْإِحْسَانِ إِلَّا الْإِحْسَانُ
hal jazāʾu al-iḥsāni illā al-iḥsān
Is the reward for good anything but good? (55:60)
Grammar

Masculine noun (maṣdar of جَزَى). Can mean reward or punishment depending on context. Verb: جَزَى (to recompense). Form III: جَازَى.

Culture

This verse from Surah ar-Raḥmān is a rhetorical question affirming divine justice - excellence deserves excellent return.

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