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This article lists all forms of the words jannah (paradise, garden) and jahannam (hell) in the Qur'an. Some Muslim apologists claim that they both appear 77 times and that this constitutes a miracle, however that does not appear to be the case. The word count has to be in the Arabic Qur'an, which makes it complicated for most people, but this article is written in a way that can be understood without previous knowledge of Arabic.

Paradise - الجنة (al-jannah)

The word paradise (الجنة, al-jannah), literally means "the garden". The root of this word is جنن (j-n-n). Some other Arabic words derived from this root:

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 its singular form and it is a feminine word–it ends on the letter ta marbuta (ة). When a word is pronounced without the case markings ('iraab) and/or outside of the an idaafa, 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" unless the word cames at the end of the line.

There are 3 forms of الجنة:

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

Sometimes the same word (only with differences in diacritics) actually refers to the jinns and not paradise:

ٱلْجِنَّةِ (al-jinnati)

The (optional) diacritics in Arabic determine the vowels. Otherwise الجنة is just ال (al-) prefix and letters ج (jim) - ن (nun) - ة(ta marbuta).

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

This word does appears 55 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 prefixed preposition:

"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."

Two questions that arise are many ways:

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

Contrary to the miracle claim, there do not to appear to be 55 instances of the word occurring.

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.

The word "garden" doesn't always mean the garden where good Muslims are supposed to end up. In many verses the word just refers to a garden that is on earth. Or the word is used allegorically. So in the Translation column, the context is specified.

The list also includes Arabic words jannah, which have a different meaning, other than "garden". The reason is not that it makes sense to count them, but to understand how apologists got to the number 77.

The counts in the list:

The column "Mixed count" counts all forms of the Arabic word jannah, including the cases where it does not refer to gardens in heaven or where it does not refer to gardens at all. It counts singular, dual and plural forms together.
The column "Translation" counts all occurrences of the word, including singular, dual and plural forms, where the word refers to the gardens in paradise.
The column "Mixed number" counts singular, dual and plural forms separately, regardless whether the word refers to any gardens or not.
The column "Gardens in paradise number" counts singular, dual and plural forms separately, only from the words, which refer to the gardens in paradise.

Mixed count	Verse	Word in Arabic	Translation	Mixed number	Gardens in paradise number
1	2:25	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 1]	plural 1	plural 1
2	2:265	جَنَّةٍۭ	garden [allegorical]	singular 1
3	2:266	جَنَّةٌ	garden [allegorical]	singular 2
4	3:15	جَنَّٰتٌ	gardens [in paradise 2]	plural 2	plural 2
5	3:133	وَجَنَّةٍ	and a garden [in paradise 3]	singular 3	singular 1
6	3:136	وَجَنَّٰتٌ	and gardens [in paradise 4]	plural 3	plural 3
7	3:195	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 5]	plural 4	plural 4
8	3:198	جَنَّٰتٌ	gardens [in paradise 6]	plural 5	plural 5
9	4:13	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 7]	plural 6	plural 6
10	4:57	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 8]	plural 7	plural 7
11	4:122	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 9]	plural 8	plural 8
12	5:12	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 10]	plural 9	plural 9
13	5:65	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 11]	plural 10	plural 10
14	5:85	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 12]	plural 11	plural 11
15	5:119	جَنَّٰتٌ	gardens [in paradise 13]	plural 12	plural 12
16	6:99	وَجَنَّٰتٍ	and gardens [of grapes]	plural 13
17	6:141	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [of vine]	plural 14
18	7:184	جِنَّةٍ	madness	singular 4
19	9:21	وَجَنَّٰتٍ	and gardens [in paradise 14]	plural 15	plural 13
20	9:72	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 15]	plural 16	plural 14
21	9:72	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 16]	plural 17	plural 15
22	9:89	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 17]	plural 18	plural 16
23	9:100	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 18]	plural 19	plural 17
24	10:9	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 19]	plural 20	plural 18
25	13:4	وَجَنَّٰتٌ	and gardens [of grapes]	plural 21
26	13:23	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 20]	plural 22	plural 19
27	14:23	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 21]	plural 23	plural 20
28	15:45	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 22]	plural 24	plural 21
29	16:31	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 23]	plural 25	plural 22
30	17:91	جَنَّةٌ	garden [of palms]	singular 5
31	18:31	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 24]	plural 26	plural 23
32	18:32	جَنَّتَيْنِ	two gardens [given to a guy]	dual 1
33	18:33	ٱلْجَنَّتَيْنِ	the two gardens [given to a guy]	dual 2
34	18:35	جَنَّتَهُۥ	his garden [given to a guy]	singular 6
35	18:39	جَنَّتَكَ	your garden [given to a guy]	singular 7
36	18:40	جَنَّتِكَ	your garden [given to a guy]	singular 8
37	18:107	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 25]	plural 27	plural 24
38	19:61	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 26]	plural 28	plural 25
39	20:76	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 27]	plural 29	plural 26
40	22:14	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 28]	plural 30	plural 27
41	22:23	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 29]	plural 31	plural 28
42	22:56	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 30]	plural 32	plural 29
43	23:19	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [of palms]	plural 33
44	23:25	جِنَّةٌ	madness	singular 9
45	23:70	جِنَّةٌ	madness	singular 10
46	25:8	جَنَّةٌ	garden [of the prophet]	singular 11
47	25:10	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 31]	plural 34	plural 30
48	25:15	جَنَّةُ	garden [in paradise 32]	singular 12	singular 2
49	26:57	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in Egypt]	plural 35
50	26:85	جَنَّةِ	garden [in paradise 33]	singular 13	singular 3
51	26:134	وَجَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [of the Ad tribe]	plural 36
52	26:147	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [of the Samood tribe]	plural 37
53	31:8	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 34]	plural 38	plural 31
54	32:19	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 35]	plural 39	plural 32
55	34:8	جِنَّةٌ	madness	singular 14
56	34:15	جَنَّتَانِ	two gardens [of the Saba tribe]	dual 3
57	34:16	بِجَنَّتَيْهِمْ	their two gardens [of the Saba tribe]	dual 4
58	34:16	جَنَّتَيْنِ	two gardens [of the Saba tribe]	dual 5
59	34:46	جِنَّةٍ	madness	singular 15
60	35:33	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 36]	plural 40	plural 33
61	36:34	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [of palms]	plural 41
62	37:43	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 37]	plural 42	plural 34
63	38:50	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 38]	plural 43	plural 35
64	40:8	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 39]	plural 44	plural 36
65	42:22	* ٱلْجَنَّاتِ	gardens [in paradise 40]	plural 45	plural 37
66	44:25	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in Egypt]	plural 46
67	44:52	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 41]	plural 47	plural 38
68	47:12	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 42]	plural 48	plural 39
69	48:5	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 43]	plural 49	plural 40
70	48:17	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 44]	plural 50	plural 41
71	50:9	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [on earth]	plural 51
72	51:15	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 45]	plural 52	plural 42
73	52:17	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 46]	plural 53	plural 43
74	53:15	جَنَّةُ	garden [in paradise 47]	singular 16	singular 4
75	54:54	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 48]	plural 54	plural 44
76	55:46	جَنَّتَانِ	two gardens [in paradise 49]	dual 6	dual 1
77	55:54	ٱلْجَنَّتَيْنِ	both gardens [in paradise 50]	dual 7	dual 2
78	55:62	جَنَّتَانِ	two gardens [in paradise 51]	dual 8	dual 3
79	56:12	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 52]	plural 55	plural 45
80	56:89	وَجَنَّتُ	and gardens [in paradise 53]	plural 56	plural 46
81	57:12	جَنَّٰتٌ	gardens [in paradise 54]	plural 57	plural 47
82	57:21	وَجَنَّةٍ	and a garden [in paradise 55]	singular 17	singular 5
83	58:16	جُنَّةً	a cover	singular 18
84	58:22	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 56]	plural 58	plural 48
85	61:12	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 57]	plural 59	plural 49
86	61:12	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 58]	plural 60	plural 50
87	63:2	جُنَّةً	a cover	singular 19
88	64:9	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 59]	plural 61	plural 51
89	65:11	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 60]	plural 62	plural 52
90	66:8	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 61]	plural 63	plural 53
91	68:34	جَنَّٰتِ	gardens [in paradise 62]	plural 64	plural 54
92	69:22	جَنَّةٍ	garden [in paradise 63]	singular 20	singular 6
93	70:35	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 64]	plural 65	plural 55
94	70:38	جَنَّةَ	garden [in paradise 65]	singular 21	singular 7
95	71:12	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [on earth or in paradise **]	plural 65
96	74:40	جَنَّٰتٍ	gardens [in paradise 66]	plural 66	plural 56
97	76:12	جَنَّةً	garden [in paradise 67]	singular 22	singular 8
98	78:16	وَجَنَّٰتٍ	and gardens [on earth]	plural 67
99	85:11	جَنَّٰتٌ	gardens [in paradise 68]	plural 68	plural 57
100	88:10	جَنَّةٍ	garden [in paradise 69]	singular 23	singular 9
101	89:30	جَنَّتِى	my garden [in paradise 70]	singular 24	singular 10
102	98:8	جَنَّٰتُ	gardens [in paradise 71]	plural 69	plural 58

(*) In the verse 42:22 the word appears with the al- prefix. al-jannah usually refers to the paradise and not to the gardens in paradise. But the word is plural and that would mean that there are many paradises. So this word probably means "gardens". However, even if we add this word to the al-jannah (paradise) word count, it still doesn't get to the word count 77. And for the total word count (paradise + paradise gardens) it doesn't matter in which category this word is.
(**) In the verse 71:12 "And help you with wealth and sons, and make for you gardens, and make for you rivers.", Noe promises his people that Allah will give them gardens. It is not clear whether he meant gardens on earth or in heaven. So the plural for "gardens in heaven" might be actually 59 and not 58.

There are cases where the ِArabic word جنة does not refer to any gardens. 5 times it refers to madness (jinnatun). The literal meaning is "possessed by the jinns" and that is why it has the root j-n-n, just like jannah.

1) Verse 7:184 "Then do they not give thought? There is in their companion [Muhammad] no madness (جِنَّةٍ, jinnatin). He is not but a clear warner."
2) Verse 23:25 "He is not but a man possessed with madness (جِنَّةٌ, jinnatun), so wait concerning him for a time."
3) Verse 23:70 "Or do they say: There is madness (جِنَّةٌ, jinnatun) in him? Nay! he has brought them the truth, and most of them are averse from the truth."
4) Verse 34:8 "He has forged a lie against Allah or there is madness (جِنَّةٌ, jinnatun) in him. Nay! those who do not believe in the hereafter are in torment and in great error."
5) Verse 34:46 "Say: I exhort you only to one thing, that rise up for Allah´s sake in twos and singly, then ponder: there is no madness (جِنَّةٍ, jinnatin) in your fellow-citizen; he is only a warner to you before a severe chastisement."

In two cases it refers to "cover" (junnatun):

1) Verse 58:16 "They make their oaths to serve as a cover (جُنَّةً, junnatan) so they turn away from Allah´s way; therefore they shall have an abasing chastisement."
2) Verse 63:2 "They have taken their oaths as a cover (جُنَّةً, junnatan), so they averted [people] from the way of Allah . Indeed, it was evil that they were doing."

The word count

The list showed that the word "garden" in the context of "gardens in paradise" appears 71 times including 10 singular forms, 3 dual forms and 58 plural forms. If we count the (plural) occurrence in the verse 71:12, then we get 72 occurrences.

There are 52 occurrences of "paradise" so let's try add the occurrences of "gardens in paradise":

52 + 71 = 123
52 + 10 (singulars) = 62

No, we don't get the number 77.

It seems that there is no way of getting the number 77, so how did apologists get to the number 77? They took the 57 occurrences of the Arabic word الجنة, regardless if it is the word "paradise" (ٱلْجَنَّةِ, al-jannah) or "jinn" (ٱلْجِنَّةِ, al-jinnah). Without the diacritics, it can be both. Then they took the 24 singular forms of جنة, regardless if it is the word garden (جَنَّة, jannah), madness (جِنَّة, jinnah) or cover (جُنَّة, junnah). So now they have 57 + 24 = 81 words. And they get 77 by excluding 4 clearly singular forms, because they appear with a suffix:

1) 18:35 (جَنَّتَهُۥ, jannatahu) - his garden
2) 18:39 (جَنَّتَكَ, jannataka) - your garden
3) 18:40 (جَنَّتِكَ, jannatika) - your garden
4) 89:30 (جَنَّتِى, jannatee) - my garden

These suffixes in Arabic just express possession. But it is still garden. A singular form of the word garden! What makes it even stranger is that occurrences with a prefix (like وَجَنَّةٍ in 57:21, "and a garden", where "and" is represented by the و prefix) are counted.

It seems however that they used a completely different tactic for this word count, they just searched through the whole Qur'an without diacritics for "جنة". From this search they got 78 occurrences and they excluded the occurrence of أَجِنَّةٌ (ajinnatun), which means "fetuses" in the verse 53:32. By this search all plural forms got excluded, because plural forms don't end with a ة (ta marbuta), but a regular ت (ta). And it also explains why the words with suffixes were not counted, because ة appears only at the end of words and when a suffix is added, the ة changes into ت. Apologists were not worried, that many words which end on the sequence جنة have a different meaning than "paradise" or "garden". Not only do they count occurrences, where the garden is somewhere on earth, but also words like "madness", "jinns", "cover".. also they were not worried that by this harsh method, they excluded clearly singular forms of the word "garden".

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 1
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 2
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	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
42	20:74	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
43	21:29	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
44	21:98	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
45	23:103	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
46	25:34	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
47	25:65	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
48	29:54	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
49	29:68	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
50	32:13	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
51	35:36	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
52	36:63	جَهَنَّمُ	hell
53	38:56	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
54	38:85	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
55	39:32	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
56	39:60	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
57	39:71	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
58	39:72	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
59	40:49	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
60	40:60	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
61	40:76	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
62	43:74	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
63	45:10	جَهَنَّمُ	hell
64	48:6	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
65	50:24	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
66	50:30	لِجَهَنَّمَ	to hell 3
67	52:13	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
68	55:43	جَهَنَّمُ	hell
69	58:8	جَهَنَّمُ	hell
70	66:9	جَهَنَّمُ	hell
71	67:6	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
72	72:15	لِجَهَنَّمَ	for hell 4
73	72:23	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
74	78:21	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
75	85:10	جَهَنَّمَ	hell
76	89:23	بِجَهَنَّمَ	with hell 5
77	98:6	جَهَنَّمَ	hell

The word count for hell is easier. But there is still the question whether to count the words with prefix? In English these Arabic prefixes would be expressed with another word, so the word count would be 77. The word count 77 for "hell" makes sense in Arabic as well. But it should be mentioned that apologists didn't count the word "day" with these prefixes in the 365 days miracle in the Quran so now there is an inconsistency in the counting methods. There are 5 occurrences with a prefix so another possible word count would be 72.

When counting the word "hell" without prefixes, we get 72 occurrences. This is exactly the same number as the number of virgins Muslims are supposed to get in paradise. Is this a miracle? If Allah wrote the Qur'an, he must have known very well that this word count would be 72 and that it is the same as the number of virgins and he must had some wise reason for that. One possible interpretation might be that Muslims who want to go to heaven to get the virgins, might actually get 72 hells as a punishment for their lust.

Conclusions

Paradise word count

The word count for "paradise" is problematic, but the most logical way of counting it produces the result 52. That method is counting the occurrences of ٱلْجَنَّةَ (al-jannah).
When we start adding word counts of the word "garden", to the "paradise" word count, we still don't get to 77.
The word count 77 for paradise is produced by an absurd counting method, which counts not only the words "paradise" and "garden", but many others, like "jinns", "madness" and "cover". And this method also excludes some singular forms of the word "garden".

Hell word count

The word count for hell is less problematic. There are basically only two reasonable counting methods. Counting all occurrences gets the result 77 and counting without prefixes gets the result 72.
Muslim apologists count the word "garden" hand in hand with "paradise". But in most of the Qur'an, hell is simply described as the "fire". Why are they ignoring this word's occurrences?

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Contents

Paradise - الجنة (al-jannah)

Garden - جنة (jannah)

The word count

Hell - جهنم (jahannam)

Conclusions

Paradise word count

Hell word count

See also

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

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Paradise - الجنة (al-jannah)

Garden - جنة (jannah)

The word count

Hell - جهنم (jahannam)

Conclusions

Paradise word count

Hell word count

See also

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