Arabic root

ج-ه-د

Jim-Heh-Dal

1 word from this root family

About this root

Jim-Heh-Dal (ج-ه-د) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: jihād (struggle / striving (in God's cause)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 41 times in 36 verses, across 19 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:218. The form جِهَادٌ (struggle / striving (in God's cause)) accounts for 4 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
جِهَادٌ jihād	struggle / striving (in God's cause)	noun, B1	4×	Worship and Prayer

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

In the Quran

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَٱلَّذِينَ هَاجَرُوا۟ وَجَـٰهَدُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ يَرْجُونَ رَحْمَتَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Lo! those who believe, and those who emigrate (to escape the persecution) and strive in the way of Allah, these have hope of Allah's mercy. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Quran 2:218

وَيَقُولُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ أَهَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ ٱلَّذِينَ أَقْسَمُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ جَهْدَ أَيْمَـٰنِهِمْ ۙ إِنَّهُمْ لَمَعَكُمْ ۚ حَبِطَتْ أَعْمَـٰلُهُمْ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ خَـٰسِرِينَ

Then will the believers say (unto the people of the Scripture): are these they who swore by Allah their most binding oaths that they were surely with you? Their works have failed, and they have become the losers.

Quran 5:53

ٱلَّذِينَ يَلْمِزُونَ ٱلْمُطَّوِّعِينَ مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِى ٱلصَّدَقَـٰتِ وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ إِلَّا جُهْدَهُمْ فَيَسْخَرُونَ مِنْهُمْ ۙ سَخِرَ ٱللَّهُ مِنْهُمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

Those who point at such of the believers as give the alms willingly and such as can find naught to give but their endeavours, and deride them - Allah (Himself) derideth them. Theirs will be a painful doom.

Quran 9:79

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

B1noun

جِهَادٌ

jihād

struggle / striving (in God's cause)

Example

وَجَاهِدُوا فِي اللَّهِ حَقَّ جِهَادِهِ

wa-jāhidū fī Allāhi ḥaqqa jihādih

And strive for Allah with the striving due to Him (22:78)

Root: ج-ه-د Quranic

Grammar

Masculine verbal noun (maṣdar) of جَاهَدَ (Form III). Related: جُهْدٌ (effort), مُجَاهِدٌ (one who strives), اجْتِهَادٌ (scholarly reasoning). The verb means 'to exert effort.'

Culture

Jihād primarily means 'inner spiritual struggle' against one's own shortcomings (the 'greater jihād'). The Prophet ﷺ called the struggle against the ego the greatest jihād.