Root

ج-ن-ب

jnb·j-n-b

33 occurrences31 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اجْتَنَبُājtanabu9—
جانِبjānib9—
جَنبjanb8—
جُنُبjunub4—
اجْنُبْājnub1—
يَتَجَنَّبُyatajannabu1—
يُجَنَّبُyujannabu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ج-ن-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 Iفَعَلَ10×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • جانِبjānib9
    • اجْنُبْājnub1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُجَنَّبُyujannabu1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَجَنَّبُyatajannabu1
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ9×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اجْتَنَبُājtanabu9

Covers 21 of this root’s 33 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-ن-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ج-ن-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 30 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 74 pages — pages 1–74, juzʾ 1–4.

Occurrences · 33 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-ن-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ج-ن-ب (jnb) occurs 33 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 31 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-ن-ب occur?

31 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ج-ن-ب (jnb), out of 33 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ج-ن-ب?

ج-ن-ب (jnb) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اجْتَنَبُ (ājtanabu, 9×), جانِب (jānib, 9×), جَنب (janb, 8×), جُنُب (junub, 4×), and اجْنُبْ (ājnub, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.