Root

ج-ه-ل

jhl·j-h-l

24 occurrences24 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
جاهِلjāhil10
يَجْهَلُyajhalu5
جاهِلِيَّةjāhiliyyah4
جَهالَةjahālah4
جَهُولjahūl1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ج-ه-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ج-ه-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ج-ه-ل occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 24 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 88 pages — pages 517604, juzʾ 2630.

Occurrences · 24 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ج-ه-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ج-ه-ل (jhl) occurs 24 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 24 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ج-ه-ل occur?

24 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ج-ه-ل (jhl), out of 24 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ج-ه-ل?

ج-ه-ل (jhl) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently جاهِل (jāhil, 10×), يَجْهَلُ (yajhalu, 5×), جاهِلِيَّة (jāhiliyyah, 4×), جَهالَة (jahālah, 4×), and جَهُول (jahūl, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.