mountain
Masculine noun. Plural: جِبَالٌ (jibāl). Mountains are called رَوَاسِيَ (firm pegs) in some verses.
Mountains in the Quran serve as pegs stabilizing the earth and as symbols of immovability. On the Day of Judgment they will be moved.
Jim-Ba-Lam
1 word from this root family
Jim-Ba-Lam (ج-ب-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: jabal (mountain).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 41 times in 39 verses, across 33 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:260. The form جَبَلٌ (mountain) accounts for 39 of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
جَبَلٌ jabal | mountain | noun, A2 | 39× | The Natural World in the Quran, Flora & Fauna |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَٱذْكُرُوٓا۟ إِذْ جَعَلَكُمْ خُلَفَآءَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ عَادٍ وَبَوَّأَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ تَتَّخِذُونَ مِن سُهُولِهَا قُصُورًا وَتَنْحِتُونَ ٱلْجِبَالَ بُيُوتًا ۖ فَٱذْكُرُوٓا۟ ءَالَآءَ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَAnd remember how He made you viceroys after A'ad and gave you station in the earth. Ye choose castles in the plains and hew the mountains into dwellings. So remember (all) the bounties of Allah and do not evil, making mischief in the earth.
۞ وَإِذْ نَتَقْنَا ٱلْجَبَلَ فَوْقَهُمْ كَأَنَّهُۥ ظُلَّةٌ وَظَنُّوٓا۟ أَنَّهُۥ وَاقِعٌۢ بِهِمْ خُذُوا۟ مَآ ءَاتَيْنَـٰكُم بِقُوَّةٍ وَٱذْكُرُوا۟ مَا فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَAnd when We shook the Mount above them as it were a covering, and they supposed that it was going to fall upon them (and We said): Hold fast that which We have given you, and remember that which is therein, that ye may ward off (evil).
وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُمْ وَٱلْجِبِلَّةَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَAnd keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of the men of old.
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).
Masculine noun. Plural: جِبَالٌ (jibāl). Mountains are called رَوَاسِيَ (firm pegs) in some verses.
Mountains in the Quran serve as pegs stabilizing the earth and as symbols of immovability. On the Day of Judgment they will be moved.