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.

18:94

قَالُوا۟ يَٰذَا ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ إِنَّ يَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ مُفْسِدُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَهَلْ نَجْعَلُ لَكَ خَرْجًا عَلَىٰٓ أَن تَجْعَلَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ سَدًّا

21:96

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.