Root dh-h-b ذ ه ب
The root dh-h-b (ذ ه ب) occurs 56 times in the Qur'an, the 191st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 56 verses across 30 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 56 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 191st ● |
| Verses containing it | 56 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 30 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 36 / 20 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 46 / 10 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.511826 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:17 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ذَهَبَ | verb | 35 | 22 |
| يُذْهِبْكُمْ | verb | 11 | 10 |
| ذَهَبٍ | noun | 8 | 6 |
| ذَاهِبٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ذَهَابٍۭ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ذَهَبَ 5×
- ذَهَبٍ 5×
- يُذْهِبْكُمْ 4×
- ٱذْهَبْ 4×
- فَٱذْهَبْ 2×
- ٱذْهَبُوا۟ 2×
- ٱذْهَبَآ 2×
- يَذْهَبُوا۟ 2×
- لَذَهَبَ 1×
- ٱلذَّهَبِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 5× · 2.814 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 5× · 3.745 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 4× · 5.161 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 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
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 12 shared verses
- ق د ر q-d-r 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 23 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 8 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 6 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 6 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 7 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).