لجج

Core meaning

To sink in without return: into water without bottom, or into a conduct one no longer comes out of.

Uses

1. لَجُّوا۟, لَّلَجُّوا۟ → "be mired" : to sink into a conduct without coming out of it.

   • «بَل لَّجُّوا۟ فِى عُتُوٍّۢ وَنُفُورٍ» — "Yet they are mired in insolence and recoil" (67:21)
   • «لَّلَجُّوا۟ فِى طُغْيَٰنِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ» — "they would be mired in their immoderation, going about blindly" (23:75)

2. لُّجِّىّ → "deep, surging" : the sea whose bottom cannot be seen.

   • «فِى بَحْرٍۢ لُّجِّىٍّۢ» — "on a deep, surging sea" (24:40)

3. لُجَّة → "a pool of water" : the expanse of water one thinks one is entering.

   • «حَسِبَتْهُ لُجَّةًۭ» — "she took it for a pool of water" (27:44)

Evidence from the text

In 24:40, the لُجِّىّ sea bears darknesses laid one on another: a wave, another above it, and a cloud; this is depth without bottom. In 27:44, the queen takes the floor for a لُجَّة and bares her legs: she expects to step into it.

The verb carries this depth over to conduct. In 23:75, even the removal of harm does not bring them out: "they would be mired in their immoderation, going about blindly"; in 67:21, insolence and recoil are the place one has sunk into.

Distinctions

• صرر — to be knotted to an act and keep to it, whereas لجج says sinking into a state
• عمه — to go about blindly: the state this sinking leaves one in