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Assabile

The word جدل in the Quran

2 times in 2 verses

Every form of the word is counted (with article, prefix or pronoun), in the Hafs reading.

The word

Surahs where it occurs most

  1. 18. Al-Kahf1
  2. 43. Az-Zukhruf1

The 2 verses

Al-Kahf18:54

وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا فِى هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ لِلنَّاسِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍ وَكَانَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَكْثَرَ شَىْءٍ جَدَلًا ۝٥٤

And We have certainly diversified in this Qur’ān for the people from every [kind of] example; but man has ever been, most of anything, [prone to] dispute.

Az-Zukhruf43:58

وَقَالُوٓا۟ ءَأَٰلِهَتُنَا خَيْرٌ أَمْ هُوَ مَا ضَرَبُوهُ لَكَ إِلَّا جَدَلًۢا بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ خَصِمُونَ ۝٥٨

And they said, "Are our gods better, or is he?" They did not present it [i.e., the comparison] except for [mere] argument. But, [in fact], they are a people prone to dispute.

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  • Some count the root (every word built on it), others a single word, others the exact form as written in the Mushaf: all three numbers are given here.
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