Root j-h-d ج ه د
The root j-h-d (ج ه د) occurs 41 times in the Qur'an, the 236th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 19 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 41 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 236th ● |
| Verses containing it | 36 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 19 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 11 / 30 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 27 / 14 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.673652 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:218 ● |
Counts from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus v0.4 root field. Period and Meccan/Medinan splits depend on a classification; the spread measure is one of several (Numbers).
Lemmas
| Most common form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَجَٰهَدُوا۟ | verb | 27 | 13 |
| جَهْدَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| جِهَادًا | noun | 4 | 4 |
| ٱلْمُجَٰهِدِينَ | noun | 4 | 2 |
| جُهْدَهُمْ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَجَٰهَدُوا۟ 6×
- جَٰهَدُوا۟ 5×
- جَهْدَ 5×
- وَجَٰهِدُوا۟ 4×
- ٱلْمُجَٰهِدِينَ 3×
- يُجَٰهِدُوا۟ 2×
- جَٰهِدِ 2×
- جَٰهَدَاكَ 2×
- وَٱلْمُجَٰهِدُونَ 1×
- يُجَٰهِدُونَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 11× · 4.404 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 4× · 4.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 3× · 2.433 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 2× · 2.24 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
● The ten surahs with the most occurrences, with the rate per 1,000 of each surah's word-units.
Roots it keeps company with
- س ب ل s-b-l 16 shared verses
- م و ل m-w-l 10 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 19 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 28 shared verses
- ه ج ر h-j-r 6 shared verses
- ق س م q-s-m 5 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 10 shared verses
- ي م ن y-m-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).