Root j-h-l ج ه ل
The root j-h-l (ج ه ل) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 363rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 24 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 363rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 24 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 15 / 9 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 19 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.5511 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:67 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْجَٰهِلِينَ | noun | 10 | 8 |
| تَجْهَلُونَ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| بِجَهَٰلَةٍ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ | proper noun | 3 | 3 |
| ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| جَهُولًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْجَٰهِلِينَ 6×
- بِجَهَٰلَةٍ 4×
- تَجْهَلُونَ 4×
- ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ 3×
- ٱلْجَٰهِلُونَ 2×
- ٱلْجَاهِلُ 1×
- ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ 1×
- يَجْهَلُونَ 1×
- جَٰهِلُونَ 1×
- جَهُولًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 2× · 1.554 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 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
- ق و م q-w-m 8 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 11 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).