Root n-j-w ن ج و
The root n-j-w (ن ج و) occurs 84 times in the Qur'an, the 132nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 75 verses across 31 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 84 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 132nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 75 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 31 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 67 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 46 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 67 / 17 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.556792 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:49 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نَجَّيْنَا | verb | 37 | 21 |
| فَأَنجَيْنَٰهُ | verb | 23 | 13 |
| ٱلنَّجْوَىٰ | noun | 11 | 7 |
| تَتَنَٰجَوْا۟ | verb | 4 | 1 |
| لَمُنَجُّوهُمْ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| نَجَا | verb | 2 | 2 |
| نَجِيًّا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| نَاجٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَٰجَيْتُمُ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلنَّجَوٰةِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فَأَنجَيْنَٰهُ 6×
- نَجَّيْنَا 4×
- وَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ 4×
- فَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ 3×
- ٱلنَّجْوَىٰ 3×
- وَنَجِّنِى 3×
- يُنَجِّيكُم 2×
- نَجَّىٰنَا 2×
- أَنجَيْنَٰكُم 2×
- أَنجَيْنَا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Mujadilah 10× · 21.186 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 7× · 3.819 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 7× · 5.988 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 5× · 2.608 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 5× · 3.794 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 5× · 5.123 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 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
- ف ل ك f-l-k 6 shared verses
- ب ر ر b-r-r 6 shared verses
- ا ه ل a-h-l 10 shared verses
- م ر ا m-r-a 5 shared verses
- ا و ل a-w-l 8 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 11 shared verses
- ع ظ م ʿ-ẓ-m 7 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).