Root b-d-l ب د ل
The root b-d-l (ب د ل) occurs 44 times in the Qur'an, the 219th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 40 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 44 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 219th ● |
| Verses containing it | 40 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 23 / 21 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 32 / 12 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.545519 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:59 ● |
Counts from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus v0.4 root field. Period and Meccan/Medinan splits depend on a classification; the spread measure is one of several (Numbers).
Lemmas
| Most common form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَدَّلُوا۟ | verb | 23 | 17 |
| تَبْدِيلًا | noun | 7 | 6 |
| مُبَدِّلَ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| أَتَسْتَبْدِلُونَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| تَبَدَّلَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| يُبْدِلَنَا | verb | 3 | 3 |
| بَدَلًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| ٱسْتِبْدَالَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَبْدِيلًا 5×
- مُبَدِّلَ 3×
- فَبَدَّلَ 2×
- تَبْدِيلَ 2×
- بَدَّلُوا۟ 2×
- بَدَّلْنَآ 2×
- نُّبَدِّلَ 2×
- أَتَسْتَبْدِلُونَ 1×
- يَتَبَدَّلِ 1×
- بَدَّلَهُۥ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 2× · 3.571 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Insan 2× · 8.23 per 1,000 word-units
● The ten surahs with the most occurrences, with the rate per 1,000 of each surah's word-units.
Roots it keeps company with
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 8 shared verses
- ك ل م k-l-m 5 shared verses
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 20 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 14 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 5 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).