Root gh-y-b غ ي ب
The root gh-y-b (غ ي ب) occurs 60 times in the Qur'an, the 182nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 59 verses across 35 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 60 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 182nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 59 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 35 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 42 / 18 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1 / 59 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.505685 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:3 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْغَيْبِ | noun | 49 | 34 |
| ٱلْغُيُوبِ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| بِغَآئِبِينَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| غَيَٰبَتِ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| غَآئِبَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَغْتَب | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْغَيْبِ 19×
- بِٱلْغَيْبِ 12×
- ٱلْغَيْبَ 6×
- ٱلْغُيُوبِ 4×
- ٱلْغَيْبُ 3×
- غَيْبُ 3×
- غَيْبَ 2×
- غَيَٰبَتِ 2×
- لِّلْغَيْبِ 1×
- غَآئِبِينَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 5× · 2.814 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 4× · 4.53 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 3× · 2.606 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-A'raf 2× · 0.602 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
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 34 shared verses
- ش ه د sh-h-d 11 shared verses
- خ ش ي kh-sh-y 5 shared verses
- ن ب ا n-b-a 8 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 13 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 11 shared verses
- و ح ي w-ḥ-y 5 shared verses
- ع ن د ʿ-n-d 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).