Quran glossary · draft

مرج

unsettled intermingling

Unsettled movement or intermingling expressed through flowing waters, confusion, and flame.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4

Roots: مرج

Lemmas: مرج · مريج · مارج

Forms: مَرَجَ · مَّرِيجٍ · مَّارِجٍ

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

25:53

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ هَٰذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ وَهَٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخًا وَحِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا

50:5

بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ فَهُمْ فِىٓ أَمْرٍ مَّرِيجٍ

55:15

وَخَلَقَ ٱلْجَآنَّ مِن مَّارِجٍ مِّن نَّارٍ

55:19

مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ

Why this meaning was chosen

The two seas are released to flow and meet while a barrier prevents transgression; a matter is described as confused; and the substance of fire from which the jinn is created is a moving, mingling flame. The noun مَرْجَان denotes coral in two marine or jewel comparisons, but the Quran-internal contexts supply no semantic bridge from coral to unsettled movement, so it is retained as a lexical collision.