Root b-ṣ-r ب ص ر
The root b-ṣ-r (ب ص ر) occurs 148 times in the Qur'an, the 75th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 139 verses across 62 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 148 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 75th ● |
| Verses containing it | 139 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 62 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 109 / 39 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 71 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 39 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 33 / 115 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.30814 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَصِيرٌ | noun / adjective | 51 | 29 |
| أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ | noun | 48 | 29 |
| يُبْصِرُونَ | verb | 29 | 19 |
| بَصَآئِرَ | noun | 7 | 7 |
| مُبْصِرًا | noun | 4 | 4 |
| بَصُرْتُ | verb | 3 | 2 |
| مُبْصِرَةً | noun | 3 | 2 |
| مُسْتَبْصِرِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَبْصِرَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَصِيرٌ 14×
- يُبْصِرُونَ 11×
- تُبْصِرُونَ 9×
- بَصِيرًا 7×
- بَصِيرًا 7×
- بَصِيرٌ 6×
- بَصِيرٌۢ 5×
- ٱلْأَبْصَٰرُ 5×
- أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ 5×
- وَٱلْأَبْصَٰرَ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 8× · 5.141 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 7× · 2.295 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 5× · 3.799 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 5× · 4.102 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mulk 5× · 15.015 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 4× · 2.996 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 4× · 4.651 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
- س م ع s-m-ʿ 37 shared verses
- ع م ي ʿ-m-y 11 shared verses
- ف ا د f-a-d 7 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 25 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 14 shared verses
- خ ب ر kh-b-r 7 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 18 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).