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Root ḥ-j-j ح ج ج

The root ḥ-j-j (ح ج ج) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 276th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 10 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences33 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots276th ●
Verses containing it26 ●
Surahs containing it10 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs10 / 23 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)9 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)23 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives14 / 19 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.706114 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:76 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
تُحَآجُّونَverb124
ٱلْحَجِّnoun93
حُجَّةٌnoun75
ٱلْحَآجِّnoun11
حَجَّverb11
حِجَجٍnoun11
حِجُّnoun11
يَتَحَآجُّونَverb11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلْحَجِّ 4×
  • ٱلْحَجَّ 2×
  • تُحَآجُّونَ 2×
  • لِيُحَآجُّوكُم 1×
  • أَتُحَآجُّونَنَا 1×
  • حُجَّةٌ 1×
  • حَجَّ 1×
  • وَٱلْحَجِّ 1×
  • ٱلْحَجُّ 1×
  • حَآجَّ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Shura 3× · 3.488 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Ghafir 1× · 0.82 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Jathiyah 1× · 2.049 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order