Root b-l-gh ب ل غ
The root b-l-gh (ب ل غ) occurs 77 times in the Qur'an, the 141st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 73 verses across 36 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 77 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 141st ● |
| Verses containing it | 73 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 36 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 49 / 28 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 51 / 26 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.437379 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:196 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَلَغَ | verb | 40 | 21 |
| ٱلْبَلَٰغُ | noun | 15 | 13 |
| بَٰلِغَ | noun | 6 | 6 |
| أُبَلِّغُكُمْ | verb | 6 | 4 |
| أَبْلَغْتُكُمْ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| بَٰلِغَةٌ | adjective / noun | 3 | 3 |
| بَلِيغًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| مَبْلَغُهُم | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْبَلَٰغُ 11×
- بَلَغَ 9×
- يَبْلُغَ 5×
- فَبَلَغْنَ 2×
- بَلَغْنَ 2×
- بَلَغُوا۟ 2×
- أُبَلِّغُكُمْ 2×
- أَبْلَغْتُكُمْ 2×
- بَلَٰغٌ 2×
- لِتَبْلُغُوٓا۟ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 7× · 4.433 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 5× · 4.102 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 4× · 6.221 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 3× · 3.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 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
- ا ج ل a-j-l 9 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 19 shared verses
- ش د د sh-d-d 9 shared verses
- ع ر ف ʿ-r-f 6 shared verses
- و ف ي w-f-y 6 shared verses
- ف ع ل f-ʿ-l 7 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 20 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).