Root sh-j-r ش ج ر
The root sh-j-r (ش ج ر) occurs 27 times in the Qur'an, the 328th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 19 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 27 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 328th ● |
| Verses containing it | 26 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 19 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 21 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1 / 26 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.682268 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:35 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلشَّجَرَةِ | noun | 19 | 13 |
| وَٱلشَّجَرُ | noun | 7 | 6 |
| شَجَرَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلشَّجَرَةِ 4×
- ٱلشَّجَرَةَ 3×
- كَشَجَرَةٍ 2×
- ٱلشَّجَرِ 2×
- وَٱلشَّجَرُ 2×
- شَجَرَةٍ 2×
- شَجَرَ 1×
- شَجَرٌ 1×
- وَٱلشَّجَرَةَ 1×
- شَجَرَةِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 3× · 3.488 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 2× · 5.277 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 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
- س م و s-m-w 5 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).