Root s-j-d س ج د
The root s-j-d (س ج د) occurs 92 times in the Qur'an, the 124th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 81 verses across 32 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 92 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 124th ● |
| Verses containing it | 81 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 32 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 54 / 38 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 25 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 25 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 38 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 35 / 57 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.519807 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:34 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱسْجُدُوا۟ | verb | 35 | 20 |
| ٱلْمَسْجِدِ | noun | 28 | 10 |
| سُجَّدًا | noun / adjective | 23 | 16 |
| ٱلسُّجُودِ | noun / adjective | 6 | 5 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمَسْجِدِ 12×
- ٱسْجُدُوا۟ 6×
- سُجَّدًا 6×
- فَسَجَدُوٓا۟ 5×
- ٱلسَّٰجِدِينَ 5×
- سَٰجِدِينَ 5×
- سُجَّدًا 5×
- يَسْجُدُونَ 4×
- ٱلسُّجُودِ 4×
- مَسَٰجِدَ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 7× · 4.499 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 6× · 9.16 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 5× · 3.925 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 4× · 7.143 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 3× · 3.359 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
- ح ر م ḥ-r-m 15 shared verses
- ر ك ع r-k-ʿ 6 shared verses
- ح ي ث ḥ-y-th 6 shared verses
- ص د د ṣ-d-d 6 shared verses
- س و ي s-w-y 7 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 7 shared verses
- و ج ه w-j-h 6 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).