Root b-r-k ب ر ك
The root b-r-k (ب ر ك) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 281st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 32 verses across 22 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 281st ● |
| Verses containing it | 32 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 22 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 28 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 17 / 15 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.651963 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:96 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَبَارَكَ | verb | 9 | 7 |
| بَٰرَكْنَا | verb | 8 | 7 |
| مُبَارَكًا | noun / adjective | 8 | 7 |
| مُّبَٰرَكَةٍ | noun / adjective | 4 | 3 |
| بَرَكَٰتٍ | noun | 3 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَٰرَكْنَا 5×
- تَبَارَكَ 4×
- مُبَارَكًا 2×
- مُبَارَكٌ 2×
- فَتَبَارَكَ 2×
- مُّبَٰرَكَةٍ 2×
- تَبَٰرَكَ 2×
- بَرَكَٰتٍ 1×
- وَبَرَكَٰتٍ 1×
- وَبَرَكَٰتُهُۥ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 3× · 2.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 3× · 3.359 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 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 ز ل n-z-l 8 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 8 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 8 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 10 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 6 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).