Root

ج-ب-ي

jby·j-b-y

12 occurrences12 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اجْتَبَىājtabā10
يُجْبَىyujbā1
جَوابjawāb1

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

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

    • يُجْبَىyujbā1
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ10×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اجْتَبَىājtabā10

Covers 11 of this root’s 12 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-ب-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ج-ب-ي 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 12 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 81 pages — pages 485565, juzʾ 2529.

Occurrences · 12 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-ب-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ج-ب-ي (jby) occurs 12 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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-ب-ي occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ج-ب-ي (jby), out of 12 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ج-ب-ي?

ج-ب-ي (jby) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اجْتَبَى (ājtabā, 10×), يُجْبَى (yujbā, 1×), and جَواب (jawāb, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.