# Za-Cim-Vav — زجو (zjw)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to drive, to urge on, become in a right state, It (a bad piece of money) passed or had currency, it was or became easy of collection, the acting with penetrative energy and effectiveness in an affair, effect/accomplish it, pushed it gently so it may go on, a small or scanty thing that may be pushed or driven away because of the little account that is made of it, paltry, weak.
- **Derived forms:** مُّزْجَىٰة (1) · يُزْجِى (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 88

- **Form in this verse:** مُّزْجَىٰةٍۢ — muz'jātin · "(of) little value"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of if'al · passive · feminine, plural · genitive case · indefinite

فَلَمَّا دَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ قَالُوا يَٓا اَيُّهَا الْعَز۪يزُ مَسَّنَا وَاَهْلَنَا الضُّرُّ وَجِئْنَا بِبِضَاعَةٍ مُزْجٰيةٍ فَاَوْفِ لَنَا الْكَيْلَ وَتَصَدَّقْ عَلَيْنَاۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ يَجْزِي الْمُتَصَدِّق۪ينَ

Falamma dakhaloo AAalayhi qalooya ayyuha alAAazeezu massana waahlanaaddurru waji/na bibidaAAatin muzjatinfaawfi lana alkayla watasaddaq AAalayna innaAllaha yajzee almutasaddiqeen

And when they entered upon him, they said: “O Governor: affliction has touched us and our people, and we have come with paltry merchandise. Fulfil thou for us the measure, and be thou charitable to us; God rewards the charitable.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-88.md_

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 66

- **Form in this verse:** يُزْجِى — yuz'jī · "drives"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

رَبُّكُمُ الَّذ۪ي يُزْج۪ي لَكُمُ الْفُلْكَ فِي الْبَحْرِ لِتَبْتَغُوا مِنْ فَضْلِه۪ۜ اِنَّهُ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَح۪يماً

Rabbukumu allathee yuzjee lakumualfulka fee albahri litabtaghoo min fadlihi innahukana bikum raheema

Your Lord is who drives for you the ships upon the sea, that you might seek of His bounty; He is merciful towards you.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-66.md_

### 24. Surah An-Nur, Verse 43

- **Form in this verse:** يُزْجِى — yuz'jī · "drives"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

اَلَمْ تَرَ اَنَّ اللّٰهَ يُزْج۪ي سَحَاباً ثُمَّ يُؤَلِّفُ بَيْنَهُ ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُ رُكَاماً فَتَرَى الْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلَالِه۪ۚ وَيُنَزِّلُ مِنَ السَّمَٓاءِ مِنْ جِبَالٍ ف۪يهَا مِنْ بَرَدٍ فَيُص۪يبُ بِه۪ مَنْ يَشَٓاءُ وَيَصْرِفُهُ عَنْ مَنْ يَشَٓاءُۜ  يَكَادُ سَنَا بَرْقِه۪ يَذْهَبُ بِالْاَبْصَارِۜ

Alam tara anna Allaha yuzjee sahabanthumma yu-allifu baynahu thumma yajAAaluhu rukaman fataraalwadqa yakhruju min khilalihi wayunazzilu mina assama-imin jibalin feeha min baradin fayuseebu bihiman yashao wayasrifuhu AAan man yashao yakadusana barqihi yathhabu bil-absar

Dost thou not see that God drives the clouds? Then He brings them together; then He makes them a mass, and thou seest the rain come forth from the midst of it. And He sends down from the sky, from mountains therein of hail, and He strikes therewith whom He wills, and turns away therefrom whom He wills. The brilliance of His lightning almost takes away the sight.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nur/verse-43.md_

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