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عرج

ʿ-r-j

The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

Root

ع-ر-ج

9

Total uses

9

Verses

8

Surahs

6

Forms

Root

ع-ر-ج

Root Meaning

The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

Derived forms

يَعۡرُجُ3ٱلۡأَعۡرَجِ2يَعۡرُجُونَ1وَمَعَارِجَ1ٱلۡمَعَارِجِ1تَعۡرُجُ1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (9)

Al-Hijr 15:14

يَعْرُجُونَMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

And even if We opened unto them a gate of heaven and they kept mounting through it

An-Nur 24:61

ٱلْأَعْرَجِMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

No blame is there upon the blind nor any blame upon the lame nor any blame upon the sick nor on yourselves if ye eat from your houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your sisters, or the houses of your fathers' brothers, or the houses of your fathers' sisters, or the houses of your mothers' brothers, or the houses of your mothers' sisters, or (from that) whereof ye hold the keys, or (from the house) of a friend. No sin shall it be for you whether ye eat together or apart. But when ye enter houses, salute one another with a greeting from Allah, blessed and sweet. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations for you, that haply ye may understand

As-Sajdah 32:5

يَعْرُجُMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

He directeth the ordinance from the heaven unto the earth; then it ascendeth unto Him in a Day, whereof the measure is a thousand years of that ye reckon

Saba 34:2

يَعْرُجُMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

He knoweth that which goeth into the earth and that which cometh forth from it, and that descendeth from the heaven and that which ascendeth into it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving

Az-Zukhruf 43:33

وَمَعَارِجَMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

And were it not that mankind would have become one community, We might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs (of silver) whereby to mount

Al-Fath 48:17

ٱلْأَعْرَجِMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turneth back, him will He punish with a painful doom

Al-Hadid 57:4

يَعْرُجُMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days; then He mounted the Throne. He knoweth all that entereth the earth and all that emergeth therefrom and all that cometh down from the sky and all that ascendeth therein; and He is with you wheresoever ye may be. And Allah is Seer of what ye do

Al-Ma'arij 70:3

ٱلْمَعَارِجِMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

Al-Ma'arij 70:4

تَعْرُجُMeaning here: The root عرج (Erj) primarily means to ascend or mount, like climbing stairs. It also describes something becoming high or elevated.

(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years