Root b-ʿ-d ب ع د
The root b-ʿ-d (ب ع د) occurs 235 times in the Qur'an, the 40th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 223 verses across 57 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 235 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 40th ● |
| Verses containing it | 223 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 57 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 130 / 105 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 35 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 91 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 105 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 232 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.280217 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:27 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَعْدِ | noun / time adverb | 199 | 54 |
| بَعِيدٍ | adjective / noun | 25 | 14 |
| بُعْدًا | noun | 7 | 3 |
| بَعُدَتْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| بَٰعِدْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| مُبْعَدُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَعْدِ 82×
- بَعْدَ 54×
- بَعْدِهِۦ 16×
- بَعْدِهِمْ 14×
- بَعِيدٍ 11×
- بَعْدُ 5×
- بَعِيدًا 5×
- بَعْدُ 4×
- بَعْدِهَا 4×
- بُعْدًا 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 27× · 4.415 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 18× · 5.171 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 15× · 4.518 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 13× · 3.469 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 9× · 3.21 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 9× · 4.695 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 8× · 9.792 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 7× · 5.319 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
- ج ي ا j-y-a 34 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 112 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 44 shared verses
- خ ل ف kh-l-f 18 shared verses
- ض ل ل ḍ-l-l 21 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 37 shared verses
- ش ق ق sh-q-q 8 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 27 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).