Root w-j-h و ج ه
The root w-j-h (و ج ه) occurs 78 times in the Qur'an, the 140th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 71 verses across 38 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 78 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 140th ● |
| Verses containing it | 71 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 38 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 44 / 34 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 75 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.403491 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:112 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَجْهَكَ | noun / time adverb | 72 | 38 |
| وَجِيهًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَجَّهْتُ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| تَوَجَّهَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| وِجْهَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَجْهَكَ 6×
- وُجُوهَكُمْ 6×
- وُجُوهٌ 6×
- وَجْهَهُۥ 5×
- وُجُوهُهُمْ 5×
- وَجْهِ 4×
- وُجُوهِهِمْ 4×
- وَجْهُ 3×
- وُجُوهَهُمْ 3×
- وَجْهِىَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 11× · 1.799 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 4× · 4.896 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 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 و ر n-w-r 9 shared verses
- س ج د s-j-d 6 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 9 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 7 shared verses
- ا ح د a-ḥ-d 5 shared verses
- ر و د r-w-d 6 shared verses
- د ي ن d-y-n 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 15 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).