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Root f-q-h ف ق ه

The root f-q-h (ف ق ه) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 400th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 12 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences20 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots400th ●
Verses containing it20 ●
Surahs containing it12 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs10 / 10 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)8 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)10 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives20 / 0 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.723453 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence4:78 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
يَفْقَهُونَverb1912
لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا۟verb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • يَفْقَهُونَ 13×
  • يَفْقَهُوهُ 3×
  • لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا۟ 1×
  • نَفْقَهُ 1×
  • تَفْقَهُونَ 1×
  • يَفْقَهُوا۟ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Munafiqun 2× · 11.111 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Taha 1× · 0.749 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

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

First verses, in mushaf order