أَمَّن جَعَلَ ٱلْأَرْضَ قَرَارًا وَجَعَلَ خِلَٰلَهَآ أَنْهَٰرًا وَجَعَلَ لَهَا رَوَٰسِىَ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ حَاجِزًا أَءِلَٰهٌ مَّعَ ٱللَّهِ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
حجز
intervening restraint
An entity that interposes so as to hold apart or prevent an action.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: حجز
Lemmas: حاجز
Forms: حَاجِزًا · حَٰجِزِينَ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
فَمَا مِنكُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَٰجِزِينَ
Why this meaning was chosen
The singular names an inanimate divider between two seas, while the masculine plural describes people who might interpose to prevent an action. Animacy and number determine the English surface form, but both contexts retain the same intervening restraint.