# Cim-Vav-Sin — جوس (jws)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To seek for or seek after, go to and fro (going and coming), trod upon, enter, come into one's midst.
- **Derived forms:** جَاسُ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 5

- **Form in this verse:** فَجَاسُوا۟ — fajāsū · "and they entered"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, plural · past tense

فَاِذَا جَٓاءَ وَعْدُ اُو۫لٰيهُمَا بَعَثْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ عِبَاداً لَنَٓا اُو۬ل۪ي بَأْسٍ شَد۪يدٍ فَجَاسُوا خِلَالَ الدِّيَارِۜ وَكَانَ وَعْداً مَفْعُولاً

Fa-itha jaa waAAdu oolahumabaAAathna AAalaykum AAibadan lana oleeba/sin shadeedin fajasoo khilala addiyariwakana waAAdan mafAAoola

Then when the promise came of the first of the two, We raised up against you servants of Ours of severe might who conducted a search within the homes; and it was a promise fulfilled.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-5.md_

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