Root b-s-ṭ ب س ط
The root b-s-ṭ (ب س ط) occurs 25 times in the Qur'an, the 345th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 25 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 345th ● |
| Verses containing it | 23 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 16 / 9 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 16 / 9 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.667302 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:245 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَبْسُطُ | verb | 16 | 11 |
| بَاسِطُوٓا۟ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| بَسْطَةً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْبَسْطِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بِسَاطًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَبْسُوطَتَانِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَبْسُطُ 9×
- وَيَبْصُۜطُ 1×
- بَسْطَةً 1×
- يَبْسُطُوٓا۟ 1×
- بَسَطتَ 1×
- بِبَاسِطٍ 1×
- مَبْسُوطَتَانِ 1×
- بَاسِطُوٓا۟ 1×
- بَصْۜطَةً 1×
- كَبَٰسِطِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 2× · 2.448 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 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
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 15 shared verses
- ر ز ق r-z-q 10 shared verses
- ق د ر q-d-r 10 shared verses
- ي د ي y-d-y 6 shared verses
- ع ب د ʿ-b-d 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 15 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 6 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).