Quranic root
بهج
b · h · j
The root centers on joy together with freshness, radiance, and visible beauty.
Its lexical development links flourishing or beautiful appearance with the joy it evokes or displays, and extends to becoming joyful, causing joy, beautifying, competing in beauty, and abundant blossoming.
- Maqāyīs · row 857
- Mufradāt · row 162
- Lane · entry 37301
- Lane · entry 37302
- Lane · entry 37303
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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.
بَهِيج
bahīj
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Beautiful, fresh, and pleasingly verdant.
In the Quranic attestations, the adjective describes kinds or varieties of vegetation and herbage, emphasizing their fresh and attractive appearance.
- Lane · entry 37311
- Mufradāt · row 162
Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:5word 69
“beautiful”
Quran 50:7word 11
“beautiful”
بَهْجَة
bahjah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Beauty, freshness, and visible splendor, with the gladness or delight associated with such an appearance.
In the Quranic construction, the quality belongs to gardens and denotes their visibly beautiful, fresh, and splendid appearance.
- Lane · entry 37310
- Mufradāt · row 162
Selected Quran examples
Quran 27:60word 14
“of beauty (and delight)”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 13 Classical meanings
بَهُجَ
To become beautiful, goodly, bright, or splendid; of a person, to take on a joyful or happy appearance.
The verb is used of persons and things; its plant usage denotes becoming beautiful and bright in vegetation or herbage.
- Lane · entry 37301
بَهِجَ
To become joyful, glad, or happy; to rejoice in or at something.
The rejoicing construction is expressed with بِهِ or لَهُ, meaning to rejoice in, at, or through something.
- Lane · entry 37301
بَهَجَ
To gladden or make a person joyful, glad, or happy.
The subject may be a thing, affair, or event that produces joy in a person.
- Lane · entry 37301
بَهَّجَ
To beautify, adorn, or render beautiful or goodly.
- Lane · entry 37302
بَاهَجَ
To vie or contend with another for superiority in beauty, goodliness, glory, or excellence.
The construction is reciprocal or comparative, involving competition with another party.
- Lane · entry 37303
أَبْهَجَ
Of land or earth, to become beautiful, bright, or splendid through its plants or herbage.
This is an intransitive environmental construction with the land or earth as subject.
- Lane · entry 37304
تَبَاهَجَ
Of meadows or gardens, to become abundant in blossoms or flowers, as though vying with one another in beauty.
The usage is a figurative or derived description of flowering meadows or gardens.
- Lane · entry 37305
اِسْتَبْهَجَ
To rejoice or become joyful at or through something, including an announcement.
The construction expresses becoming glad in response to an event, object, or announcement.
- Lane · entry 37307
بَهِيج
Beautiful or goodly; beautiful in color, bright, or splendid, including a person's attractive or happy-looking appearance.
It may describe things, vegetation, or a person; it is also applied specifically to a woman whose beauty predominates.
- Lane · entry 37311
بَهِيج
Fat, when said of a camel's hump.
This is a figurative application associating the hump's fatness with combined beauty or goodliness.
- Lane · entry 37311
بَهِج
Joyful, glad, or happy.
This adjective denotes a person's or other subject's state of joy rather than visible beauty alone.
- Lane · entry 37309
بَهْجَة
Beauty or goodliness, including beauty of color, brightness, splendor, or a beautiful and happy appearance.
It may describe a thing, plant or herbage, or a person's appearance.
- Lane · entry 37310
بَهْجَة
Happiness, joy, or gladness.
- Lane · entry 37310
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's printed citation “l. 7” is a historical Roman-numeral reference corresponding here to QAC's 50:7; it is not the modern location 1:7.
The supplied Quran occurrences are limited to the adjective بَهِيج and noun بَهْجَة; the verbal forms are represented only as broader Classical Arabic evidence.