جَعَلَ
Jaʿala: to make, to place
The 33rd most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
جَعَلَ (jaʿala) means "to make, to place". It appears 340 times in the Quran, making it the 33rd most common word: about 0.44% of all the words you read.
#33most common word
340times in the Quran
0.44%of all the words
306ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا
An-Naba 78:9 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:19.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways جَعَلَ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- جَعَلَ44×
- وَجَعَلْنَا36×
- وَجَعَلَ29×
- جَعَلْنَا28×
- جَعَلْنَٰهُ7×
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
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.