Quranic root
وجب
w · j · b
The root centers on falling, coming into occurrence, and thereby becoming established or due.
The primary semantic orientation is the falling or occurrence of something. From this developed the senses of becoming fixed, binding, necessary, or due, as well as consequences that necessarily follow. The palpitating-heart sense is treated in the lexical evidence as a separate, historically related development.
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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.
وَجَبَ
wajaba
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
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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 fall down and come to rest upon the ground.
In the Quranic construction فَإِذَا وَجَبَتْ جُنُوبُهَا, said of the sides of sacrificial animals after they fall to the ground.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:36word 16
“are down”
To die, with the soul departing and the body falling down.
An interpretive reading of the Quranic construction concerning the sacrificial animals; this preserves the reported explanation that their souls depart and they fall.
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To become inevitable or settled so that it takes effect.
A Quran-associated construction وَجَبَ عَلَيْهِ الْقَوْلُ is reported in the lexical evidence with a historical citation; the citation is not converted into a modern verse location because no matching QAC occurrence is supplied.
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Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 22:36وَجَبَتْare down
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 51 Classical meanings
وَجَبَ
To fall down, as a wall, house, or other object.
A general Classical Arabic use distinct from the Quranic construction involving sacrificial animals.
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وَجَبَ
For the sun, to set or go down.
The sense is described through the imagery of falling or descending.
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وَجَبَ
For the eye, to become sunk in the head.
Figurative or extended use marked as tropical in the lexical evidence.
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وَجَبَ
To fall and die; hence, to die.
The death sense is attested independently of the Quranic sacrificial-animal construction.
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وَجَبَ
For the heart, to palpitate, beat, throb, or become agitated.
This describes the heart's commotion rather than physical falling.
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وَجَبَتِ الإِبِلُ
For camels, to be scarcely able to rise from where they are lying.
A specialized description of difficulty rising after lying down.
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وَحُبَ
To be cowardly or pusillanimous.
The supplied lexical text gives this form with the spelling وَحُبَ; it is retained separately from the directly attested noun وَجْبٌ.
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وَجَبَهُ عَنْهُ
To drive or turn someone back from something.
The construction is used when the person had long remained attached to or occupied with the matter.
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وَجَبَ
To eat once in the course of a day and night.
A specialized dietary use of the Form I verb.
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وَجَبَ
To become necessary, binding, obligatory, incumbent, or unavoidable.
Used of a duty, requirement, right, or other matter that becomes established as binding or due.
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وَجَبَ
To be necessary in the strict theological or philosophical sense.
A technical use for something whose nonexistence cannot be mentally conceived.
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وَجَبَ البَيْعُ
For a sale to become binding, ratified, fixed, settled, concluded, or effective.
A conventional legal and commercial construction concerning the completion or effect of a sale.
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وَجَبَ
For a right, claim, reward, punishment, or wager to become due, fixed, or binding.
The sense extends the idea of establishment to what is owed or what has become incumbent; the evidence also applies it to a wager becoming due.
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وَجَّبَ
To throw someone or something down upon the ground; to cause a camel to lie on its breast.
Form II causative use, including the posture of a camel lying with folded legs.
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وَجَّبَتِ النَّاقَةُ
For a she-camel to become milkless, or for its colostrum to coagulate in the udder.
A specialized use concerning the condition of the camel or the coagulation of its first milk.
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وَجَّبَ
For a camel, to become fatigued, tired, or weary.
The lexical evidence specifically applies this Form II use to a camel.
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وَجَّبَ
To milk a camel only once during each day and night.
A specialized husbandry use.
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وَجَّبَ
To accustom oneself, one's household, or one's horse to eating only one meal per day and night.
The construction may include لِنَفْسِهِ and can describe establishing this regimen for others or for an animal.
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وَجَّبَ
To take, get, or win a bet, wager, or stake at a shooting match or race.
A specialized contest and wagering use.
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أَوْجَبَ
To make or declare something necessary, binding, obligatory, due, or unavoidable.
The causative construction may make a duty, sentence, right, or other matter take effect or become incumbent upon someone.
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أَوْجَبَ البَيْعَ
To make a sale binding, ratified, settled, concluded, or effective.
A causative commercial construction; it may also be used where the parties make the sale binding by mutual concurrence.
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أَوْجَبَ
To make an action entail a necessary consequence, especially punishment or reward.
The evidence applies this to a grave sin making Hell consequential, and to a good act making Paradise consequential, subject to repentance or other changed conduct where relevant.
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أَوْجَبَ
To necessitate or imply the necessary coexistence of something.
A technical use reported in physics and related disciplines.
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أَوْجَبَ
To affirm, establish, or aver something as opposed to denying it.
A technical semantic and logical use equivalent to affirming or establishing a proposition.
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أَوْجَبَ
To beat or overcome someone in a wager, shooting match, or race.
A specialized competitive wagering use.
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أَوْجَبَ
To make the heart palpitate, beat, throb, or become agitated.
A causative use describing induced cardiac agitation.
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تَوَاجَبُوا
To lay a bet, wager, or stake against one another.
Reciprocal Form VI use in a shooting match or race.
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اِسْتَوْجَبَ
To have a right, title, or claim to something; to deserve or merit it.
The Form X construction expresses acquired entitlement or deservingness, including deserving punishment for a sin.
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وَجْبٌ
A she-camel whose colostrum coagulates in her udder.
A specialized nominal description of the camel's condition.
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وَجْبٌ
A place in which water stagnates.
The plural وِجَابٌ denotes such places.
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وَجْبٌ
A large water-skin made from the complete hide of a he-goat.
A specialized material-culture noun; its plural is وِجَابٌ.
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وَجْبٌ
Stupid, foolish, or of little sense.
An adjectival use.
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وَجْبٌ
A coward; cowardly or pusillanimous.
The evidence also records intensive forms وَجَّابٌ and وَجَّابَةٌ under this branch.
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وَجْبٌ
A bet, wager, or stake at a shooting match or race.
A specialized noun of contests and wagering.
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وَجْبَةٌ
A fall accompanied by a sound, or the sound produced by something falling.
The noun may refer to the fall itself or to its characteristic crashing sound.
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وَجْبَةٌ
A single meal eaten during a day and night.
A specialized noun for eating only once in that period.
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وَجِيبَةٌ
A daily allowance of food or daily maintenance.
It denotes what is regularly allotted as necessary and fixed.
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وَجِيبَةٌ
A portion of a purchased thing taken successively until the whole has been received.
Used of an arrangement in which the buyer takes regular portions, sometimes one portion each day, until the due amount is complete.
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وُجُوبِيٌّ
Obligatory or incumbent.
An adjectival term opposed to اِمْتِنَانِيٌّ.
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وَاجِبٌ
Slain, dying, or dead.
An active-participial form used as a noun or adjective for one who has fallen in death.
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وَاجِبٌ
Necessary, requisite, unavoidable, binding, incumbent, or obligatory.
In religious usage, the term may be treated as weaker than فَرْضٌ by some authorities, while others regard the two as synonymous; it can also mean what should be preferred and approved.
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فِعْلٌ وَاجِبٌ
A verb expressing an event as a positive fact.
A grammatical or logical technical use, illustrated by a verb asserting that an event occurred.
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مُوجَبٌ
An effect, result, or consequence produced by an operating cause.
A technical nominal use for the produced outcome.
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كَلَامٌ مُوجَبٌ
An affirmed or affirmative sentence.
A technical logical or grammatical use opposed to a negated proposition.
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مَوْجِبٌ
A place where one falls down and dies; a place of death.
The plural may denote places of death or places where people fall in battle.
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مُوجِبٌ
A cause, efficient cause, or thing that produces or effects something.
A technical causal noun distinct from the passive-result sense of مُوجَبٌ.
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مُوجِبٌ
An ancient name for the month al-Muḥarram.
A historical calendrical use.
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مُوجِبَةٌ
A grave sin, or an act whose consequence is deserved punishment or reward.
The evidence includes sins making Hell consequential and good acts making Paradise consequential, subject to repentance or changed conduct; the plural may denote things procuring divine mercy.
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مُوَجِّبٌ
One who eats only once during a day and night.
A specialized personal description derived from the one-meal regimen.
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مُوَجِّبٌ
A beast of carriage frightened by everything.
A rare and explicitly attributed animal description.
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مُسْتَوْجِبٌ
Worthy or deserving of praise; having a right or title to it.
The construction expresses meriting praise or being its proper recipient.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The reported Lane citation for the construction وَجَبَ عَلَيْهِ الْقَوْلُ uses historical citation notation and is retained without assigning an unsupported modern verse location.
The supplied Lane text gives the Form I cowardly verb as وَحُبَ, while the directly listed nominal cowardly form is وَجْبٌ; these are kept lexically distinct rather than silently normalized.