Root b-w-b (ب و ب), 27 occurrences

Root b-w-b ب و ب

The root b-w-b (ب و ب) occurs 27 times in the Qur'an, the 329th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences	27 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots	329th ●
Verses containing it	24 ●
Surahs containing it	17 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs	21 / 6 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)	0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)	4 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)	17 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)	6 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives	0 / 27 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)	0.627908 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence	2:58 ●

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
أَبْوَٰبَ	noun	27	17

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

ٱلْبَابَ 5×
أَبْوَٰبَ 5×
بَابٍ 3×
أَبْوَٰبٍ 2×
بَابًا 2×
أَبْوَٰبُهَا 2×
أَبْوَٰبًا 2×
أَبْوَٰبِهَا 1×
أَبْوَٰبُ 1×
ٱلْأَبْوَٰبَ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

Yusuf 5× · 2.814 per 1,000 word-units
al-Hijr 3× · 4.58 per 1,000 word-units
al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 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 ت ح f-t-ḥ 9 shared verses
د خ ل d-kh-l 11 shared verses
ق و ل q-w-l 12 shared verses

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

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