Root j-ḥ-m ج ح م
The root j-ḥ-m (ج ح م) occurs 26 times in the Qur'an, the 340th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 26 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 340th ● |
| Verses containing it | 26 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 26 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.798899 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:119 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْجَحِيمِ | noun | 26 | 18 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْجَحِيمِ 17×
- ٱلْجَحِيمُ 3×
- ٱلْجَحِيمَ 3×
- جَحِيمٍ 2×
- وَجَحِيمًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Saffat 6× · 6.977 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dukhan 2× · 5.78 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nazi'at 2× · 11.173 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 1× · 0.759 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 1× · 0.82 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tur 1× · 3.205 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
- ص ح ب ṣ-ḥ-b 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).