قَالُوا۟ يَٰذَا ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ إِنَّ يَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ مُفْسِدُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَهَلْ نَجْعَلُ لَكَ خَرْجًا عَلَىٰٓ أَن تَجْعَلَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ سَدًّا
Quran glossary · draft
مَأْجُوج collective proper name
Magog
The Quranic collective proper name identifying the people consistently paired with Gog, described first as corrupters and later as released and moving rapidly from every elevation.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 2
Lemmas: مأجوج
Forms: مَأْجُوجَ · مَأْجُوجُ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا فُتِحَتْ يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ وَهُم مِّن كُلِّ حَدَبٍ يَنسِلُونَ
Where other meanings fail
Gog
18:94
قَالُوا۟ يَٰذَا ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ إِنَّ يَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ مُفْسِدُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَهَلْ نَجْعَلُ لَكَ خَرْجًا عَلَىٰٓ أَن تَجْعَلَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ سَدًّا
Alternative: indeed Gog and Gog are corrupters in the land
Research rendering: indeed Gog and Magog are corrupters in the land
The coordination explicitly distinguishes the two collective proper-name referents.