Quranic root
جهز
j · h · z
The root centers on goods or equipment collected and held for use, especially household or travel requisites.
From assembled equipment and provisions, the root develops the meanings of furnishing or equipping a person, and of being prepared with such requisites.
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- Quran-attested forms
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
جَهَّزَ
jahhaza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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 furnish, equip, or supply someone with the provisions or other requisites prepared for an undertaking or journey.
Transitive; in the Quranic construction جَهَّزَهُمْ بِجَهَازِهِمْ, the recipients are furnished with their supplies. The associated تجهيز includes carrying or sending the prepared equipment or provisions.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:70word 2
“he had furnished them”
جَهَاز
jahāz
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Supplies, equipment, or other requisites prepared for and accompanying a person, especially provisions and equipage for travel.
In the Quranic phrase بِجَهَازِهِمْ, it denotes the supplies furnished to them. Broader applications to household furnishings, merchandise, camel gear, and an anatomical sense are recorded separately under Classical Arabic meanings.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:70word 3
“with their supplies”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 12:59جَهَّزَهُمhe had furnished them
- 12:59بِجَهَازِهِمْwith their supplies
- 12:70جَهَّزَهُمhe had furnished them
- 12:70بِجَهَازِهِمْwith their supplies
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 10 Classical meanings
جَهَّزَ عَلَى
To equip horsemen and send them against an adversary.
A conventional Form II construction with عَلَى; this is a Classical Arabic military use distinct from the Quranic furnishing construction.
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أَجْهَزَ عَلَى / جَهَّزَ عَلَى
To finish off a wounded person, making the killing certain.
Used with عَلَى الجريح. The Form II is reported as an intensive, frequentative, or plural-object variant of the Form IV construction.
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تَجَهَّزَ
To equip or prepare oneself, or to become equipped or prepared.
Often construed with لِـ for the matter for which one prepares oneself.
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جَهَاز
Household furnishings and utensils; also fine goods transported from one country to another as merchandise.
Reported Classical Arabic applications of the noun beyond the Quranic reference to personal supplies.
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جَهَاز
The saddle, its accessories, and the load or equipment carried on a riding camel; in a related proverb, the camel's equipment becomes the basis for an expression meaning to flee or go away at random.
The idiomatic expression is ضَرَبَ البَعِيرُ فِي جَهَازِهِ and is explained from a camel throwing down its apparatus and then bolting.
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جَهَاز
The female pudendum.
An anatomical Classical Arabic usage.
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جَهِيز
Swift, quick, light, or active.
Applied to a horse for speed or nimbleness and to death for its rapid onset.
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مُجَهَّز
A person for whom travel provisions and equipage have been prepared, especially one equipped to perform the pilgrimage on behalf of another.
A passive-participial use focused on the person supplied with the necessary travel equipment.
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مُجَهِّز
One who sends traders out with excellent merchandise or travels with such merchandise; colloquially, a rich merchant.
The merchant-related extension is reported as a vulgar or colloquial use.
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مُجَهِّزُونَ
Travelling companions who help one load the pack animals.
A plural active-participial use referring to assistants in loading beasts for travel.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
جِهَازٌ is reported as a rare, bad, or erroneous pronunciation in the lexical evidence; the Quran-attested form is جَهَازٌ.
The عَلَى constructions meaning military dispatch or finishing off a wounded person are Classical Arabic uses and should not be confused with the Quranic furnishing sense of جَهَّزَ.