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This article lists all occurences of the words "man" and "woman" in the Qur'an.
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This article lists all occurences of the words "man" and "woman" in the Qur'an and discusses alleged [[Word Count Miracles in the Qur'an|numerical miracles]].


First we will count the words with the root "رجل" (r-j-l) meaning "man".
==Man==
===Man - Rajul (رجل)===
These are the words with the root رجل (r-j-l) meaning "man" that appear in the Qur'an:


{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" class= "wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
!Total count
!Total count
!Verse
!Verse
!Word in arabic (رجل counted)
!Word in Arabic
!Translation
!Translation
!Number (counted)
!Number (counted)
|-
|-
|1||2:228||وَلِلرِّجَالِ ||and for the men||plural 1
|1||2:228||وَلِلرِّجَالِ||and for the men||plural 1
|-
|-
|2||2:282||رِّجَالِكُمْ||your men||plural 2
|2||2:282||رِّجَالِكُمْ||your men||plural 2
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|15||7:46||رِجَالٌ||men||plural 10
|15||7:46||رِجَالٌ||men||plural 10
|-
|-
|16||7:48||رِجَالًا ||men||plural 11
|16||7:48||رِجَالًا||men||plural 11
|-
|-
|17||7:63||رَجُلٍ ||man||singular 4
|17||7:63||رَجُلٍ||man||singular 4
|-
|-
|18||7:69||شَهْرًا ||[thirty] months||plural 8 *
|18||7:69||رَجُلٍ||man||singular 5
|-
|-
|19||7:81||شَهْرَيْنِ ||two months||dual 2
|19||7:81||ٱلرِّجَالَ||men||plural 12
|-
|-
|20||7:155||أَشْهُرٍ ||[three] months||plural 9
|20||7:155||رَجُلًا||[seventy] men||plural 13 *
|-
|-
|21||9:108||شَهْرٍ 4||[thousand] months||plural 10 *
|21||9:108||رِجَالٌ||men||plural 14
|-
|-
|22||10:2||يَوْمٌ 5||the day||singular 15
|22||10:2||رَجُلٍ||man||singular 6
|-
|-
|23||11:78||يَوْمًا||a day||singular 16
|23||11:78||رَجُلٌ||man||singular 7
|-
|-
|24||12:109||يَوْمٍ 6||(of) a day||singular 17
|24||12:109||رِجَالًا||men||plural 15
|-
|-
|25||16:43||وَٱلْيَوْمِ ||and the day||singular 18
|25||16:43||رِجَالًا||men||plural 16
|-
|-
|26||16:76||يَوْمًا ||a day||singular 19
|26||16:76||رَّجُلَيْنِ||two men||dual 3
|-
|-
|27||17:47||لِيَوْمٍ ||on a day||singular 20
|27||17:47||رَجُلًا||man||singular 8
|-
|-
|28||18:32||أَيَّامًا ||[few] days||plural 7
|28||18:32||رَّجُلَيْنِ||two men||dual 4
|-
|-
|29||18:37||لِيَوْمٍ ||on a day||singular 21
|29||18:37||رَجُلًا||man||singular 9
|-
|-
|30||21:7||يَوْمَ 7||on the day||singular 22
|30||21:7||رِجَالًا||men||plural 17
|-
|-
|31||23:25||أَيَّامٍ ||[three] days||plural 8
|31||23:25||رَجُلٌ||man||singular 10
|-
|-
|32||23:38||يَوْمِ 8||the day||singular 23
|32||23:38||رَجُلٌ||man||singular 11
|-
|-
|33||24:31||يَوْمَ 9||on the day||singular 24
|33||24:31||ٱلرِّجَالِ||men||plural 18
|-
|-
|34||24:37||يَوْمَ 10||on the day||singular 25
|34||24:37||رِجَالٌ||men||plural 19
|-
|-
|35||25:8||وَٱلْيَوْمِ ||and the day||singular 26
|35||25:8||رَجُلًا||man||singular 12
|-
|-
|36||27:55||ٱلْأَيَّامُ ||these days||plural 9
|36||27:55||ٱلرِّجَالَ||men||plural 20
|-
|-
|37||28:15||يَوْمَ 11||on the day||singular 27
|37||28:15||رَجُلَيْنِ||two men||dual 5
|-
|-
|38||28:20||يَوْمَ 11||on the day||singular 27
|38||28:20||رَجُلٌ||man||singular 13
|-
|-
|39||29:29||يَوْمَ 12||on the day||singular 28
|39||29:29||ٱلرِّجَالَ||men||plural 21
|-
|-
|40||33:4||يَوْمَ 13||on the day||singular 29
|40||33:4||لِرَجُلٍ||for (any) man||singular 14
|-
|-
|42||33:23||يَوْمَئِذٍ ||on that day||singular 30
|41||33:23||رِجَالٌ||men||plural 22
|-
|-
|42||33:40||يَوْمَ 14||on the day||singular 31
|42||33:40||رِّجَالِكُمْ||your men||plural 23
|-
|-
|43||34:7||يَوْمَ 15||on the day||singular 32
|43||34:7||رَجُلٍ||man||singular 15
|-
|-
|44||34:43||يَوْمَ 16||on the day||singular 33
|44||34:43||رَجُلٌ||man||singular 16
|-
|-
|45||36:20||بِٱلْيَوْمِ ||in the day||singular 34
|45||36:20||رَجُلٌ||man||singular 17
|-
|-
|46||38:62||وَٱلْيَوْمِ ||and the day||singular 35
|46||38:62||رِجَالًا||men||plural 24
|-
|-
|47||39:29||يَوْمَئِذٍ ||on that day||singular 36
|47||39:29||رَّجُلًا||man||singular 18
|-
|-
|48||39:29||وَٱلْيَوْمِ||and the day||singular 37
|48||39:29||وَرَجُلًا||and a man||singular 19
|-
|-
|49||39:29||يَوْمِ 17||on the day||singular 38
|49||39:29||لِّرَجُلٍ||to a man||singular 20
|-
|-
|50||40:28||18 يَوْمَ||on the day||singular 39
|50||40:28||رَجُلٌ||man||singular 21
|-
|-
|51||40:28||18 يَوْمَ||on the day||singular 39
|51||40:28||رَجُلًا||man||singular 22
|-
|-
|52||43:31||وَٱلْيَوْمِ||and the day||singular 40
|52||43:31||رَجُلٍ||man||singular 23
|-
|-
|53||48:25||يَوْمَ 19||on the day||singular 41
|53||48:25||رِجَالٌ||men||plural 25
|-
|-
|54||72:6||وَيَوْمَ ||and on the day||singular 42
|54||72:6||رِجَالٌ||men||plural 26
|-
|-
|55||72:6||وَٱلْيَوْمِ ||and the day||singular 43
|55||72:6||بِرِجَالٍ||with men||plural 27
|}
|}
*(*) In this case (verse 7:155) the word itself, due to the Arabic grammar, is in the singular form but in the context it is plural.
**"And Musa chose out of his people '''seventy men''' (سَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا, ''sabAAeena rajulan'') for Our appointment..."
===Man - Mar (المرء)===
Words with the root مرا (m-r-a) meaning "man":
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
!Total count
!Verse
!Word in Arabic
!Translation
!Number (counted)
|-
|1||2:102||ٱلْمَرْءِ||man||singular 1 *
|-
|2||4:176||ٱمْرُؤٌا۟||man||singular 2 *
|-
|3||8:24||ٱلْمَرْءِ||man||singular 3
|-
|4||19:28||ٱمْرَأَ||man||singular 4 *
|-
|5||24:11||ٱمْرِئٍ||man||singular 5
|-
|6||52:21||ٱمْرِئٍ||man||singular 6
|-
|7||70:38||ٱمْرِئٍ||man||singular 7
|-
|8||74:52||ٱمْرِئٍ||man||singular 8
|-
|9||78:40||ٱلْمَرْءُ||man||singular 9
|-
|10||80:34||ٱلْمَرْءُ||man||singular 10 *
|-
|11||80:37||ٱمْرِئٍ||man||singular 11
|}
*(*) In these cases the words clearly mean "male man", in other verses the word could mean "human being" and thus include females.
**If this word always meant "human being", then for example, in 2:102 "between a man and his wife" (بَيْنَ ٱلْمَرْءِ وَزَوْجِهِ, ''bayna almari wazawjihi'') would be "between a human being and his wife", which would indicate that wife is not a human being.
===Male - Dhakar (ذكر)===
Words with the root ذكر (dh-k-r/z-k-r) meaning "male":
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
!Total count
!Verse
!Word in Arabic
!Translation
!Number (counted)
|-
|1||3:36||ٱلذَّكَرُ||male||singular 1
|-
|2||3:195||ذَكَرٍ||male||singular 2
|-
|3||4:11||لِلذَّكَرِ||for the male||singular 3
|-
|4||4:124||ذَكَرٍ||male||singular 4
|-
|5||4:176||فَلِلذَّكَرِ||then for the male||singular 5
|-
|6||6:139||لِّذُكُورِنَا||for our males||plural 1
|-
|7||6:143||ءَآلذَّكَرَيْنِ||two males||dual 1
|-
|8||6:144||ءَآلذَّكَرَيْنِ||two males||dual 2
|-
|9||16:97||ذَكَرٍ||male||singular 6
|-
|10||26:165||ٱلذُّكْرَانَ||males||plural 2
|-
|11||40:40||ذَكَرٍ||male||singular 7
|-
|12||42:49||ٱلذُّكُورَ||males||plural 3
|-
|13||42:50||ذُكْرَانًا||males||plural 4
|-
|14||49:13||ذَكَرٍ||male||singular 8
|-
|15||53:21||ٱلذَّكَرُ||male||singular 9
|-
|16||53:45||ٱلذَّكَرَ||male||singular 10
|-
|17||75:39||ٱلذَّكَرَ||male||singular 11
|-
|18||92:3||ٱلذَّكَرَ||male||singular 12
|}
==Woman==
===Woman - Imra (امرأة)===
Words with the root مرا (m-r-a) meaning "woman":
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
!Total count
!Verse
!Word in Arabic
!Translation
!Number (counted)
|-
|1||2:282||وَٱمْرَأَتَانِ||and two women||dual 1
|-
|2||3:35||ٱمْرَأَتُ||woman||singular 1
|-
|3||3:40||وَٱمْرَأَتِى||and my woman||singular 2
|-
|4||4:12||ٱمْرَأَةٌ||woman||singular 3
|-
|5||4:128||ٱمْرَأَةٌ||woman||singular 4
|-
|6||7:83||ٱمْرَأَتَهُۥ||his woman||singular 5
|-
|7||11:71||وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ||and his woman||singular 6
|-
|8||11:81||ٱمْرَأَتَكَ||your woman||singular 7
|-
|9||12:21||لِٱمْرَأَتِهِۦٓ||to his woman||singular 8
|-
|10||12:30||ٱمْرَأَتُ||woman||singular 9
|-
|11||12:51||ٱمْرَأَتُ||woman||singular 10
|-
|12||15:60||ٱمْرَأَتَهُۥ||his woman||singular 11
|-
|13||19:5||ٱمْرَأَتِى||my woman||singular 12
|-
|14||19:8||ٱمْرَأَتِى||my woman||singular 13
|-
|15||27:23||ٱمْرَأَةً||woman||singular 14
|-
|16||27:57||ٱمْرَأَتَهُۥ||his woman||singular 15
|-
|17||28:9||ٱمْرَأَتُ||woman||singular 16
|-
|18||28:23||ٱمْرَأَتَيْنِ||two women||dual 2
|-
|19||29:32||ٱمْرَأَتَهُۥ||his woman||singular 17
|-
|20||29:33||ٱمْرَأَتَكَ||your woman||singular 18
|-
|21||33:50||وَٱمْرَأَةً||and a woman||singular 19
|-
|22||51:29||ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ||his woman||singular 20
|-
|23||66:10||ٱمْرَأَتَ||woman||singular 21
|-
|24||66:10||وَٱمْرَأَتَ||and woman||singular 22
|-
|25||66:11||ٱمْرَأَتَ||woman||singular 23
|-
|26||111:4||وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ||and his woman||singular 24
|}
*Many times the word is translated as "wife".
*The plural for this word is irregular and is derived from a different root - نسو.
*From the same root مرا is derived the word "man" (''mar'')
===Women - Nisa (نساء)===
Words with the root نسو (n-s-w) meaning "women":
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
!Total count
!Verse
!Word in Arabic
!Translation
!Number (counted)
|-
|1||2:49||نِسَآءَكُمْ||your women||plural 1
|-
|2||2:187||نِسَآئِكُمْ||your women||plural 2
|-
|3||2:222||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 3
|-
|4||2:223||نِسَآؤُكُمْ||your women||plural 4
|-
|5||2:226||نِّسَآئِهِمْ||their women||plural 5
|-
|6||2:231||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 6
|-
|7||2:232||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 7
|-
|8||2:235||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 8
|-
|9||2:236||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 9
|-
|10||3:14||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 10
|-
|11||3:42||نِسَآءِ||women||plural 11
|-
|12||3:61||وَنِسَآءَنَا||and our women||plural 12
|-
|13||3:61||وَنِسَآءَكُمْ||and your women||plural 13
|-
|14||4:1||وَنِسَآءً||and women||plural 14
|-
|15||4:3||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 15
|-
|16||4:4||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 16
|-
|17||4:7||وَلِلنِّسَآءِ||and for the women||plural 17
|-
|18||4:11||نِسَآءً||women||plural 18
|-
|19||4:15||نِّسَآئِكُمْ||your women||plural 19
|-
|20||4:19||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 20
|-
|21||4:22||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 21
|-
|22||4:23||نِسَآئِكُمْ||your women||plural 22
|-
|23||4:23||نِّسَآئِكُمُ||your women||plural 23
|-
|24||4:24||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 24
|-
|25||4:32||وَلِلنِّسَآءِ||and for the women||plural 25
|-
|26||4:34||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 26
|-
|27||4:43||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 27
|-
|28||4:75||وَٱلنِّسَآءِ||and women||plural 28
|-
|29||4:98||وَٱلنِّسَآءِ||and the women||plural 29
|-
|30||4:127||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 30
|-
|31||4:127||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 31
|-
|32||4:129||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 32
|-
|33||4:176||وَنِسَآءً||and women||plural 33
|-
|34||5:6||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 34
|-
|35||7:81||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 35
|-
|36||7:127||نِسَآءَهُمْ||their women||plural 36
|-
|37||7:141||نِسَآءَكُمْ||your women||plural 37
|-
|38||12:30||نِسْوَةٌ||women||plural 38
|-
|39||12:50||ٱلنِّسْوَةِ||women||plural 39
|-
|40||14:6||نِسَآءَكُمْ||your women||plural 40
|-
|41||24:31||نِسَآئِهِنَّ||their women||plural 41
|-
|42||24:31||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 42
|-
|43||24:60||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 43
|-
|44||27:55||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 44
|-
|45||28:4||نِسَآءَهُمْ||their women||plural 45
|-
|46||33:30||يَٰنِسَآءَ||O women||plural 46
|-
|47||33:32||يَٰنِسَآءَ||O women||plural 47
|-
|48||33:32||ٱلنِّسَآءِ||women||plural 48
|-
|49||33:52||ٱلنِّسَآءُ||women||plural 49
|-
|50||33:55||نِسَآئِهِنَّ||their women||plural 50
|-
|51||33:59||وَنِسَآءِ||and women||plural 51
|-
|52||40:25||نِسَآءَهُمْ||their women||plural 52
|-
|53||48:25||وَنِسَآءٌ||and women||plural 53
|-
|54||49:11||نِسَآءٌ||women||plural 54
|-
|55||49:11||نِّسَآءٍ||women||plural 55
|-
|56||58:2||نِّسَآئِهِم||their women||plural 56
|-
|57||58:3||نِّسَآئِهِمْ||their women||plural 57
|-
|58||65:1||ٱلنِّسَآءَ||women||plural 58
|-
|59||65:4||نِّسَآئِكُمْ||your women||plural 59
|}
*Sometimes this word is translated as "wives".
===Female - Unth (أنثى)===
Words with the root انث (u-n-th) meaning "female":
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
!Total count
!Verse
!Word in Arabic
!Translation
!Number (counted)
|-
|1||2:178|||وَٱلْأُنثَىٰ||and the female||singular 1
|-
|2||2:178||بِٱلْأُنثَىٰ||for the female||singular 2
|-
|3||3:36||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 3
|-
|4||3:36||كَٱلْأُنثَىٰ||like the female||singular 4
|-
|5||3:195||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 5
|-
|6||4:11||ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِۥ||two females||dual 1
|-
|7||4:117||إِنَٰثًا||females||plural 1
|-
|8||4:124||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 6
|-
|9||4:176||ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِ||two females||dual 2
|-
|10||6:143||ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِ||two females||dual 3
|-
|11||6:143||ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِ||two females||dual 4
|-
|12||6:144||ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِ||two females||dual 5
|-
|13||6:144||ٱلْأُنثَيَيْنِ||two females||dual 6
|-
|14||13:8||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 7
|-
|15||16:58||بِٱلْأُنثَىٰ||of a female||singular 8
|-
|16||16:97||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 9
|-
|17||17:40||إِنَٰثًا||females||plural 2
|-
|18||35:11||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 10
|-
|19||37:150||إِنَٰثًا||females||plural 3
|-
|20||40:40||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 11
|-
|21||41:47||أُنثَىٰ||female||singular 12
|-
|22||42:49||إِنَٰثًا||females||plural 4
|-
|23||42:50||وَإِنَٰثًا||and females||plural 5
|-
|24||43:19||إِنَٰثًا||females||plural 6
|-
|25||49:13||وَأُنثَىٰ||and a female||singular 13
|-
|26||53:21||ٱلْأُنثَىٰ||female||singular 14
|-
|27||53:27||ٱلْأُنثَىٰ||female||singular 15
|-
|28||53:45||وَٱلْأُنثَىٰ||and the female||singular 16
|-
|29||75:39||وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ||and the female||singular 17
|-
|30||92:3||وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ||and the female||singular 18
|}
==Conclusions==
===Miracles===
*One alleged miracle is as follows: "''The word rajul (man) and the word imra (woman) are both mentioned 24 times. That is a miracle and it means men and women are equal.''"<ref>http://www.islamawareness.net/Miq/stat.html</ref><ref>http://www.answering-christianity.com/equality_men_women.htm</ref>
**The word count 24 is achieved by arbitrarily ignoring all dual and plural forms.
**Forms with suffixes and prefixes are arbitrarily counted although in the [[365 days miracle in the Quran|365 days miracle]], they were not counted.
**All the words meaning "man" with the root امر are ignored.
**This word count includes the controversial word (رَجُلًا, rajulan) from the verse 7:155, which is in the singular form, but is clearly talking about ''seventy men'' (سَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا, ''sabAAeena rajulan'').
**The number 24 doesn't signify anything and seems to be a product of coincidence.
**Equality in word count does not imply equality under law - and it is indeed the case that men and women are not valued equally under Islamic Law (see: [[Islam and Women]]).
***Male is mentioned 12 times in the singular and female is mentioned 18 times in the Quran.
*The other alleged miracle is as follows: "''The word man and woman are both mentioned 23 times and in formation of an embryo 23 chromosomes are from the mother and 23 chromosomes are from the father.''"<ref>http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/mathematical_01.html</ref>
**The word count for singular "man" can be 23 (if we don't count the controversial word in the verse 7:155, as mentioned earlier), but the word count for singular "woman" is 24.
**The word count in this miracle contradicts the word count in the previous miracle.
===Word Counts===
*The word man (''rajul'') in all its forms appears 55 times, while the word woman (''imra'' 26 + ''nisa'' 59) 85 times.
*The word "woman" unlike the word "man" is often in the form of "my woman", "his woman", "your woman"... which decidedly implies the "women are a property of men" attitude.
==See also==
*[[Word Count Miracles in the Qur'an]]
*[[365 days miracle in the Quran]]
*[[12 months miracle in the Quran]]
*[[Iman and kufr word count in the Qur'an]]
*[[Dunya and akhira word count in the Qur'an]]
*[[Land to water ratio miracle in the Qur'an]]
*[[Paradise and hell word count in the Qur'an]]
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
[[Category:Miracles]]
[[Category:Qur'an]]
[[Category:Arabic]]
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