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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).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences26 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots338th ●
Verses containing it25 ●
Surahs containing it21 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs20 / 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 adjectives5 / 21 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.658753 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence5:31 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
بِمُعْجِزِينَnoun1210
عَجُوزًاnoun44
لِيُعْجِزَهُۥverb43
مُعَٰجِزِينَnoun32
أَعْجَازُnoun22
أَعَجَزْتُverb11

● 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

  1. Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Jinn 2× · 7.018 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
  10. 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

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

First verses, in mushaf order