Root gh-f-r غ ف ر
The root gh-f-r (غ ف ر) occurs 234 times in the Qur'an, the 41st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 202 verses across 56 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 234 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 41st ● |
| Verses containing it | 202 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 56 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 99 / 135 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 33 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 61 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 135 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 105 / 129 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.308982 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| غَفُورٌ | noun / adjective | 91 | 38 |
| يَغْفِرُ | verb | 65 | 33 |
| وَٱسْتَغْفِرْ | verb | 40 | 24 |
| مَّغْفِرَةٌ | noun | 28 | 21 |
| ٱلْغَفَّٰرُ | adjective / noun | 5 | 5 |
| غَافِرِ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| غُفْرَانَكَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱلْمُسْتَغْفِرِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱسْتِغْفَارُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- غَفُورٌ 33×
- غَفُورٌ 18×
- غَفُورًا 12×
- مَّغْفِرَةٌ 10×
- يَغْفِرُ 8×
- غَفُورًا 8×
- لَغَفُورٌ 8×
- ٱلْغَفُورُ 8×
- وَيَغْفِرْ 7×
- ٱغْفِرْ 7×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 21× · 5.604 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 17× · 2.78 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 11× · 3.923 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 11× · 4.404 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 8× · 6.488 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 7× · 3.652 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 7× · 5.319 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 7× · 5.439 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
- ر ح م r-ḥ-m 91 shared verses
- ت و ب t-w-b 25 shared verses
- ذ ن ب dh-n-b 19 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 120 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 62 shared verses
- خ ط ا kh-ṭ-a 9 shared verses
- ح ل م ḥ-l-m 9 shared verses
- ع ف و ʿ-f-w 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).