Quranic root
جيأ
j · y · ʾ
No single unifying root principle is established in the supplied comparative evidence: the dominant lexical branch concerns coming and arriving, while a separate item denotes a place where water gathers.
The coming branch extends from physical arrival and presence to the occurrence of events and the bringing or presentation of something. Quran-focused discussion also distinguishes actual arrival or attainment from mere intending.
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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.
جَاءَ
jāʾa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 278 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 come, arrive, or be present; of an event, matter, time, command, or result, to come to pass or occur.
Used intransitively for real or figurative arrival. With a goal or recipient, it means to come to or reach; with مِنْ, to come from. The subject may be a person, thing, or abstract matter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:96word 3
“arrived”
To bring, present, or produce a person, thing, proof, report, or other matter for someone or before an audience.
Commonly used with بِـ for the thing or person brought; the construction may describe bringing something along, presenting evidence, or producing a report or other matter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 24:13word 2
“they bring”
To do, perform, execute, or effect something; also to utter or produce an act, saying, or novel expression.
Used with a direct object or with بِـ. In Quranic usage the construction can describe committing or producing an act rather than physically coming.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:71word 13
“you have done”
In the causative shape أَجَاءَ, to cause someone or something to come, or to compel or drive someone to resort to a place or thing.
This causative construction expresses being forced or driven to betake oneself somewhere, as in the Quranic account of the pangs of childbirth driving Mary to the palm-trunk.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:23word 1
“Then drove her”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:71جِئْتَyou have come
- 2:87جَآءَكُمْcame to you
- 2:89جَآءَهُمْcame to them
- 2:89جَآءَهُمcame to them
- 2:92جَآءَكُمcame to you
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 9 Classical meanings
جَاءَ
To beget a child; of a woman, to give birth to a child.
A specialized transitive construction with بِـ, as in bringing forth a child.
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جَاءَ
Of a word or expression, to convey or import a meaning.
Used with a meaning or interpretation as the object of what is conveyed.
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جَاءَ
To become or come to be in a particular state.
A copular-like use in which the predicate describes the state into which something comes.
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مُجَايَأَةٌ
Facing, fronting, or being opposite; also coinciding with someone in coming.
Describes being in front of or opposite another, or meeting and coinciding in the timing of arrival.
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جَايَأَ
To vie with someone in frequency of coming and strive to surpass him in it.
An idiomatic Form III use concerning repeated or competing arrival.
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جِيْئَةٌ
A coming; the act or occurrence of coming.
A verbal noun derived from جَاءَ.
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جَيَّاءٌ
A frequent comer; by extension, a frequent bringer of good.
An intensive descriptive form for someone characterized by frequent coming or bringing.
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جَاءٍ
Coming; one who is coming.
The active participle of جَاءَ.
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جِئَةٌ
A place where water gathers around a fortress or similar structure.
A separate lexical item reported with the variant جِيِّئَةٌ.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC group reports all 278 tokens under the Form I identity and includes the surface form أَجَاءَ at 19:23, which the Classical lexical evidence identifies as a causative Form IV construction. That Quran-attested causative use is retained as a distinct sense because no separate QAC form group was supplied; this does not assert that أَجَاءَ is itself a Form I paradigm form.