Root

ج-و-ب

jwb·j-w-b

43 occurrences41 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اسْتَجابَāstajāba28—
أُجِيبَتujībat8—
جَوابjawāb4—
مُجِيبmujīb2—
جابُjābu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ج-و-ب

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • جابُjābu1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ10×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أُجِيبَتujībat8
    • مُجِيبmujīb2
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ28×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَجابَāstajāba28

Covers 39 of this root’s 43 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ج-و-ب falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ج-و-ب 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 34 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 20 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 86 pages — pages 507–592, juzʾ 26–30.

Occurrences · 43 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-و-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ج-و-ب (jwb) occurs 43 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 41 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-و-ب occur?

41 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ج-و-ب (jwb), out of 43 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ج-و-ب?

ج-و-ب (jwb) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اسْتَجابَ (āstajāba, 28×), أُجِيبَت (ujībat, 8×), جَواب (jawāb, 4×), مُجِيب (mujīb, 2×), and جابُ (jābu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.