Arabic root

ر-ج-ع

Ra-Jim-Ayn

3 words from this root family

About this root

Ra-Jim-Ayn (ر-ج-ع) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: rajaʿa (to return / to go back), tarājaʿa (to retreat / to decline (Form VI)), marjiʿ (reference / source).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 104 times in 103 verses, across 42 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:18. The form رَجَعَ (to return / to go back) accounts for 79 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Motion, Advanced Verbs, Academic Formal

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
رَجَعَ rajaʿa	to return / to go back	verb, A1	79×	Action Verbs - Movement & Travel
تَرَاجَعَ tarājaʿa	to retreat / to decline (Form VI)	verb, B1		Verbs of Achievement
مَرْجِع marjiʿ	reference / source	noun, B2	16×	Academic Writing

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

In the Quran

صُمٌّۢ بُكْمٌ عُمْىٌ فَهُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ

Deaf, dumb and blind; and they return not.

Quran 2:18

ٱلَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلَـٰقُوا۟ رَبِّهِمْ وَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ

Who know that they will have to meet their Lord, and that unto Him they are returning.

Quran 2:46

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۖ لَا يَضُرُّكُم مَّن ضَلَّ إِذَا ٱهْتَدَيْتُمْ ۚ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

O ye who believe! Ye have charge of your own souls. He who erreth cannot injure you if ye are rightly guided. Unto Allah ye will all return; and then He will inform you of what ye used to do.

Quran 5:105

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).