Root h-l-k ه ل ك
The root h-l-k (ه ل ك) occurs 68 times in the Qur'an, the 161st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 63 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 68 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 161st ● |
| Verses containing it | 63 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 40 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 57 / 11 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 56 / 12 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.474019 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:195 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَهْلَكْنَا | verb | 51 | 34 |
| هَلَكَ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| مُهْلِكَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| هَالِكٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| لِمَهْلِكِهِم | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْمُهْلَكِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُهْلِكِى | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلتَّهْلُكَةِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَهْلَكْنَا 15×
- هَلَكَ 4×
- أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ 3×
- يُهْلِكَ 2×
- فَأَهْلَكْنَٰهُم 2×
- يُهْلِكُونَ 2×
- يُهْلَكُ 2×
- مُهْلِكَ 2×
- أَهْلَكْنَٰهَا 2×
- أَهْلَكْنَٰهَآ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 6× · 4.196 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 3× · 2.433 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 3× · 2.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Haqqah 3× · 11.628 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 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
- ق ر ي q-r-y 16 shared verses
- ق ر ن q-r-n 12 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 19 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 11 shared verses
- ش د د sh-d-d 6 shared verses
- ا و ل a-w-l 7 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 8 shared verses
- ا ه ل a-h-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).