Root b-ḥ-r ب ح ر
The root b-ḥ-r (ب ح ر) occurs 42 times in the Qur'an, the 230th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 40 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 42 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 230th ● |
| Verses containing it | 40 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 34 / 8 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 25 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 42 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.580741 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:50 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْبَحْرِ | noun | 41 | 25 |
| بَحِيرَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْبَحْرِ 14×
- وَٱلْبَحْرِ 8×
- ٱلْبَحْرَ 7×
- ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ 4×
- ٱلْبَحْرُ 2×
- ٱلْبِحَارُ 2×
- بَحِيرَةٍ 1×
- بَحْرٍ 1×
- وَٱلْبَحْرُ 1×
- أَبْحُرٍ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 6× · 3.8 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 3× · 5.495 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rahman 2× · 5.698 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
- ف ل ك f-l-k 9 shared verses
- ب ر ر b-r-r 9 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 8 shared verses
- س خ ر s-kh-r 5 shared verses
- ش ك ر sh-k-r 6 shared verses
- ب غ ي b-gh-y 5 shared verses
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 5 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).