Root h-d-y ه د ي
The root h-d-y (ه د ي) occurs 316 times in the Qur'an, the 24th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 268 verses across 62 of the 114 surahs, as 12 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 316 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 24th ● |
| Verses containing it | 268 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 62 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 206 / 110 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 66 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 131 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 110 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 184 / 132 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.297656 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:6 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَهْدِى | verb | 144 | 52 |
| هُدًى | noun | 85 | 31 |
| يَهْتَدُونَ | verb | 40 | 24 |
| مُّهْتَدُونَ | noun | 17 | 10 |
| أَهْدَىٰ | noun | 7 | 7 |
| هَادٍ | noun | 7 | 5 |
| وَٱلْهَدْىَ | noun | 7 | 3 |
| ٱلْمُهْتَدِ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| هَادِىَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| بِهَدِيَّةٍ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| بِهَٰدِى | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُهْتَدِى | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَهْدِى 38×
- هُدًى 27×
- وَهُدًى 15×
- ٱلْهُدَىٰ 15×
- يَهْتَدُونَ 10×
- يَهْدِ 8×
- بِٱلْهُدَىٰ 7×
- ٱهْتَدَىٰ 7×
- وَيَهْدِى 6×
- تَهْتَدُونَ 6×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 34× · 5.559 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 27× · 8.852 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 19× · 5.723 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 14× · 7.592 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 13× · 4.636 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 12× · 6.547 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 12× · 8.392 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 11× · 3.16 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 11× · 9.557 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 10× · 7.491 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
- ض ل ل ḍ-l-l 52 shared verses
- ص ر ط ṣ-r-ṭ 24 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 66 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 29 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 130 shared verses
- ت ب ع t-b-ʿ 25 shared verses
- ن و س n-w-s 29 shared verses
- ج ب ي j-b-y 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).