Root j-n-b ج ن ب
The root j-n-b (ج ن ب) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 277th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 31 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 33 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 277th ● |
| Verses containing it | 31 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 13 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 12 / 21 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.648605 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:191 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِجَانِبِ | noun / location adverb | 9 | 6 |
| وَٱجْتَنِبُوا۟ | verb | 9 | 8 |
| بِٱلْجَنۢبِ | noun | 8 | 7 |
| جُنُبًا | noun / adjective | 4 | 3 |
| وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا | verb | 1 | 1 |
| وَسَيُجَنَّبُهَا | verb | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱجْنُبْنِى | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- جُنُبًا 2×
- وَٱجْتَنِبُوا۟ 2×
- بِجَانِبِهِۦ 2×
- جَانِبِ 2×
- بِجَانِبِ 2×
- يَجْتَنِبُونَ 2×
- جُنُوبِهِمْ 1×
- تَجْتَنِبُوا۟ 1×
- ٱلْجُنُبِ 1×
- بِٱلْجَنۢبِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 4× · 2.797 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 3× · 2.355 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 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
- ك و ن k-w-n 11 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 11 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).