Root j-r-y ج ر ي
The root j-r-y (ج ر ي) occurs 64 times in the Qur'an, the 170th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 64 verses across 43 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 64 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 170th ● |
| Verses containing it | 64 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 43 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 31 / 33 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 33 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 57 / 7 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.436506 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:25 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَجْرِى | verb | 57 | 38 |
| ٱلْجَوَارِ | adjective / noun | 3 | 3 |
| جَارِيَةٌ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| فَٱلْجَٰرِيَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَجْر۪ىٰهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَجْرِى 48×
- يَجْرِى 3×
- لِتَجْرِىَ 2×
- ٱلْجَوَارِ 2×
- وَجَرَيْنَ 1×
- مَجْر۪ىٰهَا 1×
- وَلِتَجْرِىَ 1×
- يَجْرِىٓ 1×
- فَٱلْجَٰرِيَٰتِ 1×
- ٱلْجَوَارِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 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-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 3× · 2.355 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 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
- ت ح ت t-ḥ-t 40 shared verses
- ن ه ر n-h-r 45 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 37 shared verses
- خ ل د kh-l-d 21 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 17 shared verses
- ف و ز f-w-z 10 shared verses
- س خ ر s-kh-r 9 shared verses
- ف ل ك f-l-k 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).