جَاءَ

Jāʾa: to come

The 43rd most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026

Short answer

جَاءَ (jāʾa) means "to come". It appears 278 times in the Quran, making it the 43rd most common word: about 0.36% of all the words you read.

#43most common word
278times in the Quran
0.36%of all the words
262ayahs it appears in

Example from the Quran

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ

Abasa 80:2 · Read the translation on Quran.com

It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:71.

How it appears in the Quran

The most common ways جَاءَ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:

  • جَآءَ57×
  • جَآءَهُمْ15×
  • جَآءَهُم15×
  • جَآءَكُمْ11×
  • جَآءَكَ11×

Verbs are listed by their past-tense "he" form, as in Arabic dictionaries. The count includes every form of the verb, such as "he says", "they said" and "say!".

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Sources

  1. Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.