# Cim-Vav-Ayn — جوع (jwE)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/jwE

- **Meaning:** To be hungry, empty in the belly, hunger or long for a thing, to desire and long (as though hungering) for a thing.
- **Derived forms:** تَجُوعَ (1) · جُوع (4)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 155

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلْجُوعِ — wal-jūʿi · "and [the] hunger"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْءٍ مِنَ الْخَوْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِنَ الْاَمْوَالِ وَالْاَنْفُسِ وَالثَّمَرَاتِۜ وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِر۪ينَۙ

Walanabluwannakum bishay-in mina alkhawfiwaljooAAi wanaqsin mina al-amwali wal-anfusiwaththamarati wabashshiri assabireen

And We will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives and fruits; but bear thou glad tidings to the patient:

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-155.md_

### 16. Surah An-Nahl, Verse 112

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْجُوعِ — l-jūʿi · "(of) the hunger"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَضَرَبَ اللّٰهُ مَثَلاً قَرْيَةً كَانَتْ اٰمِنَةً مُطْمَئِنَّةً يَأْت۪يهَا رِزْقُهَا رَغَداً مِنْ كُلِّ مَكَانٍ فَكَفَرَتْ بِاَنْعُمِ اللّٰهِ فَاَذَاقَهَا اللّٰهُ لِبَاسَ الْجُوعِ وَالْخَوْفِ بِمَا كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ

Wadaraba Allahu mathalanqaryatan kanat aminatan mutma-innatanya/teeha rizquha raghadan min kulli makaninfakafarat bi-anAAumi Allahi faathaqaha Allahulibasa aljooAAi walkhawfi bima kanooyasnaAAoon

And God strikes a similitude: — a city secure, at peace, its provision coming to it in abundance from every side; but it denied the favours of God, then God let it taste the cloak of hunger and fear because of what they wrought.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nahl/verse-112.md_

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 118

- **Form in this verse:** تَجُوعَ — tajūʿa · "you will be hungry"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 2nd person, masculine, singular · present tense

اِنَّ لَكَ اَلَّا تَجُوعَ ف۪يهَا وَلَا تَعْرٰىۙ

Inna laka alla tajooAAa feehawala taAAra

“It is for thee to be neither hungry nor naked therein,

_https://quran.so/surah-taha/verse-118.md_

### 88. Surah Al-Ghashiyah, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** جُوعٍۢ — jūʿin · "hunger"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْن۪ي مِنْ جُوعٍۜ

La yusminu wala yughnee minjooAA

Neither sustaining, nor availing against hunger.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-ghashiyah/verse-7.md_

### 106. Surah Quraysh, Verse 4

- **Form in this verse:** جُوعٍۢ — jūʿin · "(against) hunger"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

اَلَّذ۪ٓي اَطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ جُوعٍ وَاٰمَنَهُمْ مِنْ خَوْفٍ

Allathee atAAamahum min jooAAinwaamanahum min khawf

Who fed them against hunger, and made them safe against fear.

_https://quran.so/surah-quraysh/verse-4.md_

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