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ج-ع-ل

Jim-Ayn-Lam

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Jim-Ayn-Lam (ج-ع-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: jaʿala (he made / he placed / he rendered).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 346 times in 311 verses, across 66 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:19. The form جَعَلَ (he made / he placed / he rendered) accounts for 340 of them.

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Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
جَعَلَ
jaʿala
he made / he placed / he renderedverb, A1340×The Most Frequent Words (Part 4)

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

أَوْ كَصَيِّبٍ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فِيهِ ظُلُمَـٰتٌ وَرَعْدٌ وَبَرْقٌ يَجْعَلُونَ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِم مِّنَ ٱلصَّوَٰعِقِ حَذَرَ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ مُحِيطٌۢ بِٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ

Or like a rainstorm from the sky, wherein is darkness, thunder and the flash of lightning. They thrust their fingers in their ears by reason of the thunder-claps, for fear of death, Allah encompasseth the disbelievers (in His guidance, His omniscience and His omnipotence).

Quran 2:19
ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ فِرَٰشًا وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بِنَآءً وَأَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ رِزْقًا لَّكُمْ ۖ فَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ لِلَّهِ أَندَادًا وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you. And do not set up rivals to Allah when ye know (better).

Quran 2:22
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ إِنِّى جَاعِلٌ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً ۖ قَالُوٓا۟ أَتَجْعَلُ فِيهَا مَن يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا وَيَسْفِكُ ٱلدِّمَآءَ وَنَحْنُ نُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِكَ وَنُقَدِّسُ لَكَ ۖ قَالَ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَمُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not.

Quran 2:30

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A1verb
جَعَلَ
jaʿala

he made / he placed / he rendered

Example
وَجَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ آيَتَيْنِ
wa-jaʿalnā al-layla wan-nahāra āyatayn
And We made the night and day two signs (17:12)
Grammar

Form I verb. Past: جَعَلَ, Present: يَجْعَلُ. Can take two objects: جَعَلَ الشَّيْءَ كَذَا (made something into such). Also means 'to begin' with present tense verb.

Culture

Used extensively in the Quran to describe God's creative acts and His arrangement of the natural world for human benefit.

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