Root

ج-ه-د

jhd·j-h-d

41 occurrences36 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
جاهَدَjāhada27—
جَهْدjahd5—
مُجاهِدmujāhid4—
جِهادjihād4—
جُهْدjuhd1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ج-ه-د

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 Iفَعَلَ5×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • جَهْدjahd5
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ31×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • جاهَدَjāhada27
    • مُجاهِدmujāhid4

Covers 36 of this root’s 41 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-ه-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ج-ه-د 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 28 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (13 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 70 pages — pages 440–509, juzʾ 22–26.

Occurrences · 41 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-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ج-ه-د (jhd) occurs 41 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 36 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-د occur?

36 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ج-ه-د (jhd), out of 41 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ج-ه-د?

ج-ه-د (jhd) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently جاهَدَ (jāhada, 27×), جَهْد (jahd, 5×), مُجاهِد (mujāhid, 4×), جِهاد (jihād, 4×), and جُهْد (juhd, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.