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Quranic root

حجز

ḥ · j · z

The root denotes placing a separation between two things, thereby preventing contact, movement, or action between them.

From interposing and holding apart, the lexical family develops meanings of barriers, restraint, mutual abstention, protective separation, waist-fastening, and related forms of attachment. The regional name al-Ḥijāz is likewise explained through its separating position.

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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.

حَاجِزٌ

ḥājizun

Part of speech
Noun · active participle
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.

  1. A barrier or separating partition between two things.

    In the Quran, used for the separator placed between two bodies of water in the expression وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ حَاجِزًا.

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    • Lane · entry 13594
    • Lane · entry 13609
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 27:61word 14

    a barrier

  2. One who prevents, restrains, or wards off.

    The plural active participle حَاجِزِينَ describes those who could prevent it; in 69:47 it qualifies أَحَدٌ, which is grammatically singular but construed in the plural sense.

    • Mufradāt · row 299
    • Lane · entry 13594
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 69:47word 6

    (who could) prevent (it)

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 27:61حَاجِزًا ۗa barrier
  • 69:47حَـٰجِزِينَ(who could) prevent (it)
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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 25 Classical meanings
  • حَجَزَ

    In a figurative idiom, a person's condition or standing cannot be concealed.

    An idiomatic tropical usage, not the ordinary concrete sense of preventing or separating.

    • Lane · entry 13594
  • حَجَّزَ

    To fence or partition something with a wall or other barrier.

    Attested in the passive construction of a roof that has not been fenced around with a wall.

    • Lane · entry 13595
  • مُحَاجَزَةٌ

    Reciprocal prevention of fighting; mutual abstention from combat and the making of peace.

    Used of opposing parties or troops, especially in the conventional contrast between محاجزة and مناجزة.

    • Lane · entry 13596
    • Lane · entry 13598
  • تَحَاجَزَ

    To separate or part from one another; to mutually withhold, forsake, or relinquish one another.

    Used of people or groups; in an imperative expression it can mean “separate the people” or “withhold yourself.”

    • Lane · entry 13594
    • Lane · entry 13598
    • Lane · entry 13600
    • Lane · entry 13607
  • تَحَاجَزَ

    To take hold of one another by the waistbands; figuratively, to seek aid, refuge, or protection from one another.

    A derived reciprocal construction connected with حُجْزَةٌ, the waistband or grasping place.

    • Lane · entry 13598
  • انْحَجَزَ

    To be restrained or held back; to restrain oneself, refrain, forbear, or abstain.

    A quasi-passive or reflexive realization of the basic preventing sense.

    • Lane · entry 13599
    • Lane · entry 13607
  • انْحَجَزَ

    To leave, forsake, or relinquish something.

    Used with عَنْهُ in the cited construction.

    • Lane · entry 13599
  • احْتَجَزَ

    To defend oneself or protect oneself by means of something.

    The construction احتجز به takes the protecting means with بِـ.

    • Lane · entry 13600
  • احْتَجَزَ

    To carry something in the waistband.

    A concrete clothing-related use of the derived verb.

    • Lane · entry 13600
  • احْتَجَزَ

    To tie or wrap an izār around the waist, bringing its ends together.

    Used with بِإِزَارِهِ for fastening or wrapping the waist garment.

    • Lane · entry 13600
  • احْتَجَزَ

    To be encompassed or bounded by surrounding terrain or other boundaries.

    Attested of a place surrounded by stony tracts and mountains.

    • Lane · entry 13600
  • احْتَجَزَ

    To come to the province of al-Ḥijāz.

    A lexicalized geographic usage of the derived verb.

    • Lane · entry 13600
  • حَجْزٌ

    A person who abstains from what is unlawful or indecorous.

    The related expression طَيِّبُ الحُجْزَةِ carries the same moral characterization, especially concerning sexual propriety.

    • Lane · entry 13601
    • Lane · entry 13604
  • حَجْزَةٌ

    A severe year that confines people to their tents or houses and forces them to slaughter valuable camels for food.

    A rare lexical usage attested in poetic evidence.

    • Lane · entry 13603
  • حُجْزَةُ الإِزَارِ

    The part of an izār where it is folded or tied around the waist; by extension, the waist garment itself.

    Also used of the corresponding upper fold or waistband of trousers.

    • Lane · entry 13604
  • شِدَّةُ الحُجْزَةِ

    Patience, endurance, or hardiness in difficulty.

    A figurative idiom derived from the firmness of a waistband or fastening.

    • Lane · entry 13604
  • نَاتِئُ الحُجْزَةِ

    Full or protuberant in the flanks.

    A figurative bodily description; the condition is presented as a fault in the cited usage.

    • Lane · entry 13604
  • حُجْزَةٌ

    A means of seeking another's aid, refuge, or protection by taking hold of the person's waistband.

    Also used figuratively of laying hold of a means of access or nearness to God.

    • Lane · entry 13604
  • حُجْزَةٌ

    Figurative attachment or ordered linkage: words may be connected in sequence, and persons or kin may be described as attached to one another.

    Attested in idioms about coherent speech and the attachment of kin.

    • Lane · entry 13604
  • حِجْزَةٌ

    A mode, manner, or form of tying an izār.

    A clothing term distinct from the place or part where the garment is tied.

    • Lane · entry 13605
  • حِجَازٌ

    A rope fastened from a camel's hip to its pastern.

    A concrete nominal usage from which a related sense of joining or gathering is conceived.

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  • حَاجِزٌ

    A person or group who prevents someone from obtaining a right; alternatively, defenders who mediate between people and decide disputes justly.

    A specialized social and legal usage with two reported interpretations; it is distinct from the general Quranic sense of a preventer.

    • Lane · entry 13609
  • مَحْجُوزٌ

    Hit or hurt at the part of the body where the izār is tied.

    A passive-participial bodily description.

    • Lane · entry 13610
  • مُحْتَجَزٌ

    The bodily place or part where the izār is tied.

    A noun for the waist-fastening location, not the act of fastening itself.

    • Lane · entry 13611
  • مُحْتَجِزٌ

    Having the waist bound with an izār.

    The feminine form is also used of a woman whose garment is tied over the awrah.

    • Lane · entry 13612

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic occurrence حَاجِزِينَ is a plural active participle used in the construction وَمَا أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِجَبَّارٍ وَمَا أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِجَبَّارٍ? No modern location has been inferred from Lane citation notation; the supplied QAC locations alone are used for Quran examples.