Root b-y-n ب ي ن
The root b-y-n (ب ي ن) occurs 523 times in the Qur'an, the 10th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 454 verses across 71 of the 114 surahs, as 13 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 523 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 10th ● |
| Verses containing it | 454 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 71 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 304 / 219 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 87 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 215 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 219 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 55 / 468 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.196703 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:66 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَيْنَ | location adverb / noun | 266 | 58 |
| مُّبِينٌ | noun / adjective | 119 | 43 |
| بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ | noun / adjective | 71 | 32 |
| يُبَيِّنُ | verb | 35 | 12 |
| تَبَيَّنَ | verb | 18 | 10 |
| بَيَانٌ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مُّبَيِّنَٰتٍ | adjective / noun | 3 | 2 |
| مُّبَيِّنَةٍ | adjective / noun | 3 | 3 |
| بَيِّنٍ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُسْتَبِينَ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| وَلِتَسْتَبِينَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| تِبْيَٰنًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَيْنَ 70×
- بَيْنَهُمْ 42×
- مُّبِينٍ 29×
- مُّبِينٌ 27×
- بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ 24×
- بَيْنَهُمَا 22×
- بَيْنَكُمْ 18×
- مُّبِينٌ 17×
- بَيْنَنَا 13×
- بَيِّنَٰتٍ 12×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 46× · 7.521 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 37× · 9.875 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 24× · 8.559 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 22× · 6.32 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 16× · 5.246 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 16× · 18.12 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 15× · 4.518 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 15× · 8.183 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 14× · 7.592 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 14× · 8.866 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
- ي د ي y-d-y 44 shared verses
- خ ل ف kh-l-f 45 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 65 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 57 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 207 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 61 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 41 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 69 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).