Paradise and hell word count in the Qur'an: Difference between revisions

From WikiIslam, the online resource on Islam
Jump to navigation Jump to search
[unchecked revision][unchecked revision]
Line 168: Line 168:
|1||2:25||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 1
|1||2:25||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 1
|-
|-
|2||2:265||جَنَّةٍۭ||garden||singular 1
|2||2:265||جَنَّةٍۭ||garden [allegorical]||singular 1
|-
|-
|3||2:266||جَنَّةٌ||garden||singular 2
|3||2:266||جَنَّةٌ||garden [allegorical]||singular 2
|-
|-
|4||3:15||جَنَّٰتٌ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 2
|4||3:15||جَنَّٰتٌ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 2
Line 188: Line 188:
|11||4:122||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 8
|11||4:122||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 8
|-
|-
|12||||||garden
|12||5:12||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 9
|-
|-
|13||||||garden
|13||5:65||جَنَّٰتِ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 10
|-
|-
|14||||||garden
|14||5:85||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 11
|-
|-
|15||7:43||ٱلْجَنَّةُ||paradise
|15||5:119||جَنَّٰتٌ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 12
|-
|-
|16||7:44||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|16||6:99||وَجَنَّٰتٍ||and gardens [of grapes]||plural 13
|-
|-
|17||7:46||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|17||6:141||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [of vine]||plural 14
|-
|-
|18||7:49||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|18||9:21||وَجَنَّٰتٍ||and gardens [in heaven]||plural 15
|-
|-
|19||7:50||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|19||9:72||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 16
|-
|-
|20||9:111||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|20||9:72||جَنَّٰتِ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 17
|-
|-
|21||10:26||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|21||9:89||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 18
|-
|-
|22||11:23||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|22||9:100||جَنَّٰتٍ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 19
|-
|-
|23||11:108||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|23||10:9||جَنَّٰتِ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 20
|-
|-
|24||11:119||ٱلْجِنَّةِ||'''jinns'''
|24||13:4||وَجَنَّٰتٌ||and gardens [of grapes]||plural 21
|-
|-
|25||13:35||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|25||13:23||جَنَّٰتُ||gardens [in heaven]||plural 22
|-
|-
|26||16:32||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|26||14:23||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|27||19:60||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|27||15:45||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|28||19:63||ٱلْجَنَّةُ||paradise
|28||16:31||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|29||20:117||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|29||17:91||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|30||20:121||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|30||18:31||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|31||25:24||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|31||18:32||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|32||26:90||ٱلْجَنَّةُ||paradise
|32||18:33||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|33||29:58||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|33||18:35||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|34||32:13||ٱلْجِنَّةِ||'''jinns'''
|34||18:39||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|35||36:26||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|35||18:40||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|36||36:55||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|36||18:107||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|37||37:158||ٱلْجِنَّةِ||'''jinns'''
|37||19:61||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|38||37:158||ٱلْجِنَّةُ||'''jinns'''
|38||20:76||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|39||39:73||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|39||22:14||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|40||39:74||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|40||22:23||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|41||40:40||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|41||22:56||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|42||41:30||بِٱلْجَنَّةِ||of paradise
|42||23:19||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|43||42:7||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|43||25:8||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|44||43:70||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|44||25:10||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|45||43:72||ٱلْجَنَّةُ||paradise
|45||25:15||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|46||46:14||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|46||26:57||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|47||46:16||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|47||26:85||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|48||47:6||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|48||26:134||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|49||47:15||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|49||26:147||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|50||50:31||ٱلْجَنَّةُ||paradise
|50||31:8||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|51||59:20||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|51||32:19||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|52||59:20||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|52||34:15||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|53||66:11||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|53||34:16||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|54||68:17||ٱلْجَنَّةِ||paradise
|54||34:16||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|55||79:41||ٱلْجَنَّةَ||paradise
|55||35:33||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|56||81:13||ٱلْجَنَّةُ||paradise
|56||36:34||||gardens||plural
|-
|-
|57||114:6||ٱلْجِنَّةِ||'''jinn'''
|57||37:43||||gardens||plural
|-
|58||38:50||||gardens||plural
|-
|59||40:8||||gardens||plural
|-
|60||42:22||||gardens||plural
|-
|61||44:25||||gardens||plural
|-
|62||44:52||||gardens||plural
|-
|63||47:12||||gardens||plural
|-
|64||48:5||||gardens||plural
|-
|65||48:17||||gardens||plural
|-
|66||50:9||||gardens||plural
|-
|67||51:15||||gardens||plural
|-
|68||52:17||||gardens||plural
|-
|69||53:15||||gardens||plural
|-
|70||54:54||||gardens||plural
|-
|71||55:46||||gardens||plural
|-
|72||55:54||||gardens||plural
|-
|73||55:62||||gardens||plural
|-
|74||56:12||||gardens||plural
|-
|75||56:89||||gardens||plural
|-
|76||57:12||||gardens||plural
|-
|77||57:21||||gardens||plural
|-
|78||58:22||||gardens||plural
|-
|79||61:12||||gardens||plural
|-
|80||61:12||||gardens||plural
|-
|91||63:2||||gardens||plural
|-
|92||64:9||||gardens||plural
|-
|93||65:11||||gardens||plural
|-
|94||66:8||||gardens||plural
|-
|95||68:34||||gardens||plural
|-
|96||69:22||||gardens||plural
|-
|97||70:35||||gardens||plural
|-
|98||70:38||||gardens||plural
|-
|99||71:12||||gardens||plural
|-
|100||74:40||||gardens||plural
|-
|101||76:12||||gardens||plural
|-
|102||78:16||||gardens||plural
|-
|103||85:11||||gardens||plural
|-
|104||88:10||||gardens||plural
|-
|105||89:30||||gardens||plural
|-
|106||98:8||||gardens||plural
|}
|}


Revision as of 17:29, 13 November 2016

This page lists all forms of the words jannah (paradise, garden) and jahannam (hell) in the Qur'an. The purpose is to analyze the claim that they both appear 77 times.

Paradise - الجنة (al-jannah)

The word paradise (الجنة, al-jannah, literally means "the garden". The root of this word is جنن (j-n-n). Other words derived from this word, used in the Qur'an are:

  • garden (جَنَّٰتٍ, jannatin in verse 2:25)
  • over-shadowed (جَنَّ, janna in verse 6:76)
  • jinns (ٱلْجِنَّ, aljinna in verse 6:100)
  • madness (جِنَّةٍ, jinnatin in verse 7:184)
  • madman (مَجْنُونٌ, majnoonun in verse 51:39)
  • a snake (جَآنٌّ, jannun in verse 27:10)

This word appears only in the singular form and it is a feminine word - it ends on ta marbuta (ة). When a word is alone (not in a context of an Arabic text), the ta marbuta at the end is not pronounced, so it is read as jannah, not jannat, so when using this word in English it is basically always read as jannah. But when reading whole sentences from the Qur'an in Arabic, the ta marbuta would be read as "t".

There are 3 forms of الجنة:

  • ٱلْجَنَّةُ (al-jannatu) - nominative
  • ٱلْجَنَّةِ (al-jannati) - genitive
  • ٱلْجَنَّةَ (al-jannata) - accusative

And sometimes this exactly same word (only with differences in diacritics) actually refers to the jinns and not paradise:

  • ٱلْجِنَّةِ (al-jinnati)
Count Verse Word in Arabic Translation
1 2:35 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
2 2:82 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
3 2:111 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
4 2:214 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
5 2:221 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
6 3:142 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
7 3:185 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
8 4:124 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
9 5:72 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
10 7:19 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
11 7:22 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
12 7:27 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
13 7:40 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
14 7:42 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
15 7:43 ٱلْجَنَّةُ paradise
16 7:44 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
17 7:46 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
18 7:49 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
19 7:50 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
20 9:111 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
21 10:26 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
22 11:23 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
23 11:108 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
24 11:119 ٱلْجِنَّةِ jinns
25 13:35 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
26 16:32 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
27 19:60 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
28 19:63 ٱلْجَنَّةُ paradise
29 20:117 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
30 20:121 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
31 25:24 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
32 26:90 ٱلْجَنَّةُ paradise
33 29:58 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
34 32:13 ٱلْجِنَّةِ jinns
35 36:26 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
36 36:55 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
37 37:158 ٱلْجِنَّةِ jinns
38 37:158 ٱلْجِنَّةُ jinns
39 39:73 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
40 39:74 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
41 40:40 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
42 41:30 بِٱلْجَنَّةِ of paradise
43 42:7 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
44 43:70 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
45 43:72 ٱلْجَنَّةُ paradise
46 46:14 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
47 46:16 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
48 47:6 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
49 47:15 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
50 50:31 ٱلْجَنَّةُ paradise
51 59:20 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
52 59:20 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
53 66:11 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
54 68:17 ٱلْجَنَّةِ paradise
55 79:41 ٱلْجَنَّةَ paradise
56 81:13 ٱلْجَنَّةُ paradise
57 114:6 ٱلْجِنَّةِ jinn

As we can see, this word does not appear 77 times and in 5 cases refers to the jinns:

  • 1) Verse 11:119 "... Certainly I will fill hell with the jinn (ٱلْجِنَّةِ, aljinnati) and the men, all together."
  • 2) Verse 32:13 "... I will certainly fill hell with the jinn (ٱلْجِنَّةِ, aljinnati) and men together."
  • 3,4) Verse 37:158 "And they assert a relationship between Him and the jinn (ٱلْجِنَّةِ, aljinnati); and certainly the jinn (ٱلْجِنَّةُ, aljinnatu) do know that they shall surely be brought up;"
  • 5) 114:6 "From among the jinn (ٱلْجِنَّةِ, aljinnati) and the men."

In the verse 41:30 the word appears with a prefix:

  • "Indeed, those who have said, "Our Lord is Allah " and then remained on a right course - the angels will descend upon them, [saying], "Do not fear and do not grieve but receive good tidings of Paradise (بِٱلْجَنَّةِ, biljannati), which you were promised."

So this word count is already very questionable. Not only we didn't get to the number 77, but it's hard to say even to which number we have arrived, because there are many ways of counting:

  • Include or exclude the verses where the word refers to the jinns?
  • Include or exclude the verse where the word appears with a prefix?

Garden - جنة (jannah)

Trying to count al-jannah didn't bring the result 77. But maybe it will get to 77 if we consider "paradise" to be synonymous with "garden", because they are basically the same word and heaven is described as "gardens under which rivers flow", repeatedly, in the Qur'an.

If the word in the context of the verse refers to the garden(s) in heaven, it is specified in the translation by [in heaven].

Count Verse Word in Arabic Translation Number
1 2:25 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 1
2 2:265 جَنَّةٍۭ garden [allegorical] singular 1
3 2:266 جَنَّةٌ garden [allegorical] singular 2
4 3:15 جَنَّٰتٌ gardens [in heaven] plural 2
5 3:133 وَجَنَّةٍ and a garden [in heaven] singular 3
6 3:136 وَجَنَّٰتٌ and gardens [in heaven] plural 3
7 3:195 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 4
8 3:198 جَنَّٰتٌ gardens [in heaven] plural 5
9 4:13 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 6
10 4:57 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 7
11 4:122 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 8
12 5:12 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 9
13 5:65 جَنَّٰتِ gardens [in heaven] plural 10
14 5:85 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 11
15 5:119 جَنَّٰتٌ gardens [in heaven] plural 12
16 6:99 وَجَنَّٰتٍ and gardens [of grapes] plural 13
17 6:141 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [of vine] plural 14
18 9:21 وَجَنَّٰتٍ and gardens [in heaven] plural 15
19 9:72 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 16
20 9:72 جَنَّٰتِ gardens [in heaven] plural 17
21 9:89 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 18
22 9:100 جَنَّٰتٍ gardens [in heaven] plural 19
23 10:9 جَنَّٰتِ gardens [in heaven] plural 20
24 13:4 وَجَنَّٰتٌ and gardens [of grapes] plural 21
25 13:23 جَنَّٰتُ gardens [in heaven] plural 22
26 14:23 gardens plural
27 15:45 gardens plural
28 16:31 gardens plural
29 17:91 gardens plural
30 18:31 gardens plural
31 18:32 gardens plural
32 18:33 gardens plural
33 18:35 gardens plural
34 18:39 gardens plural
35 18:40 gardens plural
36 18:107 gardens plural
37 19:61 gardens plural
38 20:76 gardens plural
39 22:14 gardens plural
40 22:23 gardens plural
41 22:56 gardens plural
42 23:19 gardens plural
43 25:8 gardens plural
44 25:10 gardens plural
45 25:15 gardens plural
46 26:57 gardens plural
47 26:85 gardens plural
48 26:134 gardens plural
49 26:147 gardens plural
50 31:8 gardens plural
51 32:19 gardens plural
52 34:15 gardens plural
53 34:16 gardens plural
54 34:16 gardens plural
55 35:33 gardens plural
56 36:34 gardens plural
57 37:43 gardens plural
58 38:50 gardens plural
59 40:8 gardens plural
60 42:22 gardens plural
61 44:25 gardens plural
62 44:52 gardens plural
63 47:12 gardens plural
64 48:5 gardens plural
65 48:17 gardens plural
66 50:9 gardens plural
67 51:15 gardens plural
68 52:17 gardens plural
69 53:15 gardens plural
70 54:54 gardens plural
71 55:46 gardens plural
72 55:54 gardens plural
73 55:62 gardens plural
74 56:12 gardens plural
75 56:89 gardens plural
76 57:12 gardens plural
77 57:21 gardens plural
78 58:22 gardens plural
79 61:12 gardens plural
80 61:12 gardens plural
91 63:2 gardens plural
92 64:9 gardens plural
93 65:11 gardens plural
94 66:8 gardens plural
95 68:34 gardens plural
96 69:22 gardens plural
97 70:35 gardens plural
98 70:38 gardens plural
99 71:12 gardens plural
100 74:40 gardens plural
101 76:12 gardens plural
102 78:16 gardens plural
103 85:11 gardens plural
104 88:10 gardens plural
105 89:30 gardens plural
106 98:8 gardens plural

Hell - جهنم (jahannam)

List of occurrences of the word "hell" (جهنم, jahannam). All occurrences are in the singular. This word sometimes occurs with some prefix. The forms without prefix appear in two forms:

  • جَهَنَّمُ (jahannamu) - nominative
  • جَهَنَّمَ (jahannama) - genitive

Unlike most Arabic words, the word jahannam has 4 (not 3) root letters (ج-ه-ن-م, j-h-n-m).

Count Verse Word in Arabic Translation
1 2:206 جَهَنَّمُ hell
2 3:12 جَهَنَّمَ hell
3 3:162 جَهَنَّمُ hell
4 3:197 جَهَنَّمُ hell
5 4:55 بِجَهَنَّمَ in hell
6 4:93 جَهَنَّمُ hell
7 4:97 جَهَنَّمُ hell
8 4:115 جَهَنَّمَ hell
9 4:121 جَهَنَّمُ hell
10 4:140 جَهَنَّمَ hell
11 4:169 جَهَنَّمَ hell
12 7:18 جَهَنَّمَ hell
13 7:41 جَهَنَّمَ hell
14 7:179 لِجَهَنَّمَ for hell
15 8:16 جَهَنَّمُ hell
16 8:36 جَهَنَّمَ hell
17 8:37 جَهَنَّمَ hell
18 9:35 جَهَنَّمَ hell
19 9:49 جَهَنَّمَ hell
20 9:63 جَهَنَّمَ hell
21 9:68 جَهَنَّمَ hell
22 9:73 جَهَنَّمَ hell
23 9:81 جَهَنَّمَ hell
24 9:95 جَهَنَّمُ hell
25 9:109 جَهَنَّمَ hell
26 11:119 جَهَنَّمَ hell
27 13:18 جَهَنَّمُ hell
28 14:16 جَهَنَّمُ hell
29 14:29 جَهَنَّمَ hell
30 15:43 جَهَنَّمَ hell
31 16:29 جَهَنَّمَ hell
32 17:8 جَهَنَّمَ hell
33 17:18 جَهَنَّمَ hell
34 17:39 جَهَنَّمَ hell
35 17:63 جَهَنَّمَ hell
36 17:97 جَهَنَّمُ hell
37 18:100 جَهَنَّمَ hell
38 18:102 جَهَنَّمَ hell
39 18:106 جَهَنَّمُ hell
40 19:68 جَهَنَّمَ hell
41 19:86 hell
42 20:74 hell
43 21:29 hell
44 21:98 hell
45 23:103 hell
46 25:34 hell
47 25:65 hell
48 29:54 hell
49 29:68 hell
50 32:13 hell
51 35:36 hell
52 36:63 hell
53 38:56 hell
54 38:85 hell
55 39:32 hell
56 39:60 hell
57 39:71 hell
58 39:72 hell
59 40:49 hell
60 40:60 hell
61 40:76 hell
62 43:74 hell
63 45:10 hell
64 48:6 hell
65 50:24 hell
66 50:30 hell
67 52:13 hell
68 55:43 hell
69 58:8 hell
70 66:9 hell
71 67:6 hell
72 72:15 hell
73 72:23 hell
74 78:21 hell
75 85:10 hell
76 89:23 hell
77 98:6 hell
Retrieved from "http://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Paradise_and_hell_word_count_in_the_Qur%27an&oldid=116161"