Root b-l-w ب ل و
The root b-l-w (ب ل و) occurs 38 times in the Qur'an, the 248th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 35 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 38 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 248th ● |
| Verses containing it | 35 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 21 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 30 / 8 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.511319 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:49 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ | verb | 20 | 15 |
| ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ | verb | 8 | 6 |
| بَلَآءٌ | noun | 6 | 6 |
| لَمُبْتَلِينَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| لَتُبْلَوُنَّ | verb | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَلَآءٌ 3×
- لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ 2×
- لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ 2×
- ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ 2×
- ٱبْتَلَىٰٓ 1×
- وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم 1×
- مُبْتَلِيكُم 1×
- لِيَبْتَلِيَكُمْ 1×
- وَلِيَبْتَلِىَ 1×
- لَتُبْلَوُنَّ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 3× · 5.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qalam 2× · 6.667 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fajr 2× · 14.599 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 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
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 6 shared verses
- ح س ن ḥ-s-n 5 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 6 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 5 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 6 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 5 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 5 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).