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ج و ع
Jiim-Waw-Ayn
General Root Meaning
To be hungry, empty in the belly, hunger or long for a thing, to desire and long (as though hungering) for a thing.
  
l-jūʿi   (1)

16:112
And sets forth Allah a similitude (of) a town (that) was secure and content, coming to it its provision (in) abundance from every place, but it denied (the) Favors (of) Allah, so made it taste Allah (the) garb (of) the hunger and the fear for what they used (to) do.

  
tajūʿa   (1)

20:118
Indeed, for you that not you will be hungry therein and not you will be unclothed.

  
jūʿin   (2)

106:4
The One Who feeds them [from] (against) hunger and gives them security from fear.

88:7
Not it nourishes and not it avails from hunger.

  
wal-jūʿi   (1)

2:155
And surely We will test you with something of [the] fear and [the] hunger and loss of [the] wealth and [the] lives and [the] fruits, but give good news (to) the patient ones.

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