Root b-ʿ-ḍ ب ع ض
The root b-ʿ-ḍ (ب ع ض) occurs 158 times in the Qur'an, the 70th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 87 verses across 38 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 158 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 70th ● |
| Verses containing it | 87 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 38 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 77 / 81 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 61 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 81 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 158 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.404869 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:26 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَعْضٍ | noun | 157 | 38 |
| بَعُوضَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَعْضٍ 37×
- بَعْضُهُمْ 19×
- بَعْضَ 14×
- بِبَعْضٍ 11×
- لِبَعْضٍ 8×
- بَعْضًا 8×
- بَعْضُكُمْ 6×
- بَعْضَهُمْ 6×
- بَعْضُ 6×
- بَعْضُكُم 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 18× · 2.943 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 14× · 4.59 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 11× · 2.936 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 8× · 6.488 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 7× · 5.319 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 7× · 8.434 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 6× · 3.856 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 5× · 4.762 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 50 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 19 shared verses
- ف و ق f-w-q 6 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 12 shared verses
- ه ج ر h-j-r 5 shared verses
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 35 shared verses
- ف ت ن f-t-n 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).