Root j-ʿ-l ج ع ل
The root j-ʿ-l (ج ع ل) occurs 346 times in the Qur'an, the 20th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 311 verses across 66 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 346 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 20th ● |
| Verses containing it | 311 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 66 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 268 / 78 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 83 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 172 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 78 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 340 / 6 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.310676 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:19 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| جَعَلَ | verb | 340 | 66 |
| جَاعِلٌ | noun | 6 | 5 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- جَعَلَ 44×
- وَجَعَلْنَا 36×
- وَجَعَلَ 29×
- جَعَلْنَا 28×
- جَعَلْنَٰهُ 7×
- وَجَعَلُوا۟ 7×
- تَجْعَلُوا۟ 5×
- وَٱجْعَل 5×
- جَعَلَكُمْ 5×
- وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 19× · 6.23 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 17× · 19.037 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 15× · 2.453 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 15× · 9.64 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 15× · 9.5 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 14× · 7.592 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 12× · 10.265 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 12× · 14.458 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 11× · 11.446 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 11× · 7.692 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
- ا م م a-m-m 22 shared verses
- خ ل ف kh-l-f 22 shared verses
- ن د د n-d-d 5 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 16 shared verses
- ز و ج z-w-j 14 shared verses
- س ك ن s-k-n 13 shared verses
- س ف ل s-f-l 5 shared verses
- ش ك ر sh-k-r 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).