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ج-ب-ل

Jim-Ba-Lam

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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.

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Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
جَبَلٌ
jabal
mountainnoun, A239×The Natural World in the Quran, Flora & Fauna

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

In the Quran

وَٱذْكُرُوٓا۟ إِذْ جَعَلَكُمْ خُلَفَآءَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ عَادٍ وَبَوَّأَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ تَتَّخِذُونَ مِن سُهُولِهَا قُصُورًا وَتَنْحِتُونَ ٱلْجِبَالَ بُيُوتًا ۖ فَٱذْكُرُوٓا۟ ءَالَآءَ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ

And 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.

Quran 7:74
۞ وَإِذْ نَتَقْنَا ٱلْجَبَلَ فَوْقَهُمْ كَأَنَّهُۥ ظُلَّةٌ وَظَنُّوٓا۟ أَنَّهُۥ وَاقِعٌۢ بِهِمْ خُذُوا۟ مَآ ءَاتَيْنَـٰكُم بِقُوَّةٍ وَٱذْكُرُوا۟ مَا فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ

And 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).

Quran 7:171
وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُمْ وَٱلْجِبِلَّةَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

And keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of the men of old.

Quran 26:184

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

A2noun
جَبَلٌ
jabal

mountain

Example
وَتَرَى الْجِبَالَ تَحْسَبُهَا جَامِدَةً وَهِيَ تَمُرُّ مَرَّ السَّحَابِ
wa-tarā al-jibāla taḥsabuhā jāmidatan wa-hiya tamurru marra as-saḥāb
And you see the mountains, thinking them rigid, while they will pass as the passing of clouds (27:88)
Grammar

Masculine noun. Plural: جِبَالٌ (jibāl). Mountains are called رَوَاسِيَ (firm pegs) in some verses.

Culture

Mountains in the Quran serve as pegs stabilizing the earth and as symbols of immovability. On the Day of Judgment they will be moved.

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