Quranic root
أجر
ʾ · j · r
The root centers on recompense or compensation for work, with a related classical branch denoting the mending of a broken bone.
The lexical field develops from payment or recompense for effort to wages, rent, reward, and bridal due. Classical root analysis connects these branches through the idea that compensation restores or repairs a condition affected by toil; it also records a distinct healing sense.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَجَرَ
ʾajara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To serve or work for someone in return for hire or wages.
In the Quranic construction, the work is undertaken for an agreed period or compensation.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:27word 11
“you serve me”
اِسْتَأْجَرَ
āistaʾjara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form X
- Form
- X
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To hire or take someone into paid service; to rent or take something on lease.
The Quranic occurrences concern hiring a person. The same lexical construction extends classically to taking a house or other property on hire.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:26word 4
“Hire him”
Quran 28:26word 8
“you (can) hire”
أَجْرٌ
ʾajrun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 105 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Recompense or reward received for work, conduct, or service, especially a beneficial reward granted by God.
The Quranic usage includes worldly and eschatological reward and commonly concerns recompense for righteous action or faithful conduct.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:97word 14
“their reward”
Payment, wage, or other compensation due for work or service.
This sense is used for compensation connected with work, service, or an agreement; contextual translations may use “payment,” “fee,” or “wage.”
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:57word 6
“payment”
A bridal due or dowry paid to a wife.
In marriage contexts, especially in the plural أُجُورٌ, the term denotes the bridal gift or marital payment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:24word 27
“their bridal due”
Praise or good fame.
This is a qualified, attributed figurative interpretation reported for a Quranic passage; the cited passage is not assigned a modern Quran location here because that location is not independently supplied by QAC.
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Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:62أَجْرُهُمْtheir reward
- 2:112أَجْرُهُۥ(is) his reward
- 2:262أَجْرُهُمْtheir reward
- 2:274أَجْرُهُمْ(is) their reward
- 2:277أَجْرُهُمْtheir reward
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 14 Classical meanings
أَجَرَ
To recompense, compensate, or reward someone for what the person has done.
The subject may be God or a human being. A passive construction may describe someone becoming entitled to reward through the death or loss of children.
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أَجَرَ / آجَرَ
To let a person, slave, house, or other property for hire, or to appoint or contract wages for work.
The derived patterns differ in transitivity and in whether the construction presents the lessor, the hired person, or the agreed compensation as the object.
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ائْتَجَرَ
To give alms in the hope of obtaining a reward from God.
This is a Form VIII usage in which the charitable act is performed with the expectation of reward.
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أُوتُجِرَ
To be hired to perform a task for a specified payment.
The passive construction presents the person as engaged for an agreed sum or other compensation.
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أَجْرٌ
Rent or a hire charge for the use of a house or other property.
This is the property-use branch of the noun, distinct from reward for conduct and from wages for labor.
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إِجَارَةٌ
A lease or legal grant of the usufruct of property in return for compensation.
The legal usage includes land let to someone who undertakes to build upon it.
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أَجِيرٌ
A hired worker, hireling, or person engaged to work for pay.
The term may refer generally to a person with whom an agreement for wages has been made.
- Lane · entry 6210
إِجَّارٌ
The flat roof or top of a house that has no surrounding barrier to prevent a person from falling.
This is a regional or dialectal architectural noun, not a remuneration term.
- Lane · entry 6212
إِجِّيرَى
A custom, habit, or established practice.
It occurs in the expression for something that continually remained someone’s customary practice.
- Lane · entry 6214
آجُرٌّ
A baked brick or piece of baked clay used in building.
The word is identified as an Arabicized loanword and has collective and plural variants.
- Lane · entry 6216
مُؤْجَرٌ
A person, slave, house, or other thing let out on hire.
This passive participial usage describes the object or person made available under a hire arrangement.
- Lane · entry 6219
مُؤْجِرٌ
A person who lets a slave, house, or other property on hire.
The term denotes the party granting the hire; a related form is also recorded in the same sense.
- Lane · entry 6220
مُؤْتَجَرٌ
Hired or engaged for service, including a hired servant or slave.
This is a participial usage describing someone engaged by another household or employer for a period or task.
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أُجِرَتْ
To have a broken bone mended or healed.
This is a distinct classical healing branch, especially used of a hand or other injured limb.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The praise or good-fame sense is explicitly attributed and marked as an assumed figurative interpretation; its reported historical Quran citation is not used as a modern verse location because QAC does not independently supply that occurrence.
The noun أَجْرٌ covers reward, contractual payment, and bridal due; the intended English rendering depends on the surrounding construction.