Root ʿ-j-b ع ج ب
The root ʿ-j-b (ع ج ب) occurs 27 times in the Qur'an, the 331st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 27 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 331st ● |
| Verses containing it | 24 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 14 / 13 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 19 / 8 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.662589 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:204 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ | verb | 11 | 7 |
| أَوَعَجِبْتُمْ | verb | 8 | 7 |
| عَجَبًا | adjective / noun | 5 | 4 |
| عَجِيبٌ | adjective | 2 | 2 |
| عُجَابٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَجَبًا 3×
- أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ 2×
- أَعْجَبَكَ 2×
- أَوَعَجِبْتُمْ 2×
- تُعْجِبْكَ 2×
- عَجِيبٌ 2×
- يُعْجِبُكَ 1×
- أَعْجَبَكُمْ 1×
- عَجَبًا 1×
- أَتَعْجَبِينَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 2× · 2.729 per 1,000 word-units
- Qaf 2× · 5.362 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 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
- ن ذ ر n-dh-r 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 11 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).