Root ʿ-j-z ع ج ز
The root ʿ-j-z (ع ج ز) occurs 26 times in the Qur'an, the 338th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 26 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 338th ● |
| Verses containing it | 25 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 21 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.658753 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 5:31 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِمُعْجِزِينَ | noun | 12 | 10 |
| عَجُوزًا | noun | 4 | 4 |
| لِيُعْجِزَهُۥ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| مُعَٰجِزِينَ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| أَعْجَازُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| أَعَجَزْتُ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بِمُعْجِزِينَ 7×
- مُعَٰجِزِينَ 3×
- مُعْجِزِى 2×
- مُعْجِزِينَ 2×
- عَجُوزٌ 2×
- عَجُوزًا 2×
- أَعْجَازُ 2×
- أَعَجَزْتُ 1×
- يُعْجِزُونَ 1×
- لِيُعْجِزَهُۥ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jinn 2× · 7.018 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 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
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 9 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 10 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).