ج ي أ (j-y-ʾ): Every Word From This Root in the Quran

Quran Root Words > Root j-y-ʾ

The Arabic root ج ي أ (j-y-ʾ) occurs 278 times in the Quran, and every one of those occurrences is the same word: جَآءَ (jāʾa). It is number 32 of the 1,642 roots in the Quranic Arabic Corpus by frequency.

What the root j-y-ʾ means

The Quranic Arabic Corpus glosses the root's form I verb جَآءَ (jāʾa) as "to come".

The middle letter of j-y-ʾ is the weak letter ي. In a root like this, called hollow, the middle letter is often not written as a consonant and turns into a long vowel instead. The Quran's only word from this root is جَآءَ (jāʾa).

One letter of j-y-ʾ is a hamza, the glottal stop. Arabic writes a hamza on a seat chosen by the vowels around it (أ, إ, ؤ, ئ, or ء on its own); in جَآءَ (jāʾa) it is written ء.

Every word from the root j-y-ʾ in the Quran

The Quran uses one word from j-y-ʾ. The table gives its spelling as the corpus writes it, its type, its meaning and its count. Every one of the 278 occurrences is a verb, in form I.

Meanings in quotation marks are MASAQ word-by-word glosses, the others the corpus dictionary's, and the word types follow the dictionary. Every count on this page is a lemma count from the Quranic Arabic Corpus, version 0.4. We compared this count, the root total of 278, with the corpus's own dictionary entry for j-y-ʾ, and it matches.

The root j-y-ʾ in the verses of the Quran

Words from j-y-ʾ appear in 262 verses spread over 62 of the Quran's 114 suras. Sura 7 has the most of them, 21 verses. Below are the shortest verses in which the root's most frequent words occur, with the word marked. The text is the Uthmani text of Tanzil, and each reference opens the verse on quran.com with translations.

جَآءَ (jāʾa), 278 times

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ
Quran 80:2; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "came to him"

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ
Quran 80:33; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "comes"

لَّقَدْ جِئْتُمْ شَيْـًٔا إِدًّا
Quran 19:89; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "you have put forth"

Learning the words of j-y-ʾ

جَآءَ (jāʾa), no. 40 with 278, is on our list of the 100 most common Quran words, which counts it the same way. Its verb follows the pattern of form I, and our Arabic verb conjugator conjugates any root in any form, so you can see how جَآءَ changes for person and tense. Our full conjugation of jāʾa sets out every person and tense of جَآءَ. The root j-y-ʾ is one of the 1,642 roots you can search in our Quran root word explorer; for the rest of the language, see our Arabic learning resources by level.

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