Root j-y-a ج ي ا
The root j-y-a (ج ي ا) occurs 278 times in the Qur'an, the 32nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 262 verses across 62 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 278 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 32nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 262 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 62 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 208 / 70 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 67 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 135 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 70 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 278 / 0 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.296075 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:71 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| جَآءَ | verb | 278 | 62 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- جَآءَ 57×
- جَآءَهُمْ 15×
- جَآءَهُم 15×
- جَآءَكُمْ 11×
- جَآءَكَ 11×
- جَآءَهُمُ 11×
- جَآءَتْهُمْ 11×
- جَآءَكُم 10×
- وَجَآءَ 10×
- جَآءَتْ 8×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 21× · 6.325 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 16× · 5.246 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 16× · 8.729 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 15× · 7.825 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 13× · 4.636 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 11× · 6.19 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 10× · 2.669 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 9× · 6.294 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
- ب ي ن b-y-n 65 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 62 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 118 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 40 shared verses
- س ح ر s-ḥ-r 18 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 34 shared verses
- ك ذ ب k-dh-b 28 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 42 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).