Root j-w-b ج و ب
The root j-w-b (ج و ب) occurs 43 times in the Qur'an, the 227th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 41 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 43 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 227th ● |
| Verses containing it | 41 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 33 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 37 / 6 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.551023 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:186 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ | verb | 28 | 17 |
| أَجَبْتُمُ | verb | 8 | 7 |
| جَوَابَ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| مُّجِيبٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| جَابُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ 5×
- ٱسْتَجَابُوا۟ 4×
- جَوَابَ 4×
- فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا 4×
- فَٱسْتَجَابَ 3×
- فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ 2×
- يَسْتَجِيبُ 2×
- ٱسْتَجِيبُوا۟ 2×
- أُجِيبُ 1×
- أُجِبْتُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Anbiya 4× · 3.422 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 4× · 4.651 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 3× · 3.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 3× · 4.666 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 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
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 17 shared verses
- ن د و n-d-w 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 11 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 8 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 7 shared verses
- ع ب د ʿ-b-d 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 18 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).