Root b-y-t ب ي ت
The root b-y-t (ب ي ت) occurs 73 times in the Qur'an, the 149th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 54 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 73 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 149th ● |
| Verses containing it | 54 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 29 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 28 / 45 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 45 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 68 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.483864 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:125 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بُيُوتًا | noun | 65 | 28 |
| يُبَيِّتُونَ | verb | 4 | 2 |
| بَيَٰتًا | noun / time adverb | 3 | 2 |
| يَبِيتُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بُيُوتًا 9×
- ٱلْبَيْتِ 8×
- بُيُوتِ 8×
- بُيُوتِكُمْ 5×
- ٱلْبَيْتَ 4×
- بَيْتِىَ 3×
- بَيْتٍ 3×
- ٱلْبُيُوتَ 2×
- ٱلْبُيُوتِ 2×
- يُبَيِّتُونَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nur 14× · 10.638 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 5× · 3.885 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 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
- ط و ف ṭ-w-f 7 shared verses
- ا ه ل a-h-l 8 shared verses
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 7 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 6 shared verses
- ن و س n-w-s 8 shared verses
- ص ل و ṣ-l-w 5 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 15 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).