Root b-n-y ب ن ي
The root b-n-y (ب ن ي) occurs 184 times in the Qur'an, the 53rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 150 verses across 53 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 184 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 53rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 150 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 53 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 101 / 83 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 67 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 83 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 11 / 173 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.332065 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:22 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَنِىٓ | noun | 80 | 33 |
| ٱبْنُ | noun | 63 | 27 |
| وَبَنَاتِ | noun | 17 | 9 |
| بَنَىٰهَا | verb | 11 | 11 |
| بُنْيَٰنًا | noun | 7 | 5 |
| بِنَآءً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱبْنَتَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| بَنَّآءٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّبْنِيَّةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَنِىٓ 31×
- ٱبْنُ 12×
- يَٰبَنِىٓ 11×
- ٱبْنَ 10×
- يَٰبُنَىَّ 6×
- وَبَنِينَ 6×
- وَٱبْنِ 5×
- أَبْنَآءَكُمْ 4×
- أَبْنَآءَهُمْ 4×
- لِّبَنِىٓ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 18× · 6.419 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 17× · 2.78 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 12× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 10× · 7.77 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 8× · 5.141 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 7× · 5.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 7× · 8.14 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 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
- ن س و n-s-w 13 shared verses
- ا ي د a-y-d 6 shared verses
- س ك ن s-k-n 11 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 13 shared verses
- ي ت م y-t-m 6 shared verses
- ق ر ب q-r-b 11 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 56 shared verses
- ر و ح r-w-ḥ 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).