Root k-b-r ك ب ر
The root k-b-r (ك ب ر) occurs 161 times in the Qur'an, the 67th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 153 verses across 57 of the 114 surahs, as 18 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 161 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 67th ● |
| Verses containing it | 153 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 57 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 123 / 38 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 89 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 38 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 55 / 106 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.330373 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:34 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَبِيرًا | adjective / noun | 40 | 24 |
| يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ | verb | 40 | 24 |
| أَكْبَرُ | noun / adjective | 24 | 17 |
| كَبُرَ | verb | 8 | 8 |
| كَبَٰٓئِرَ | noun | 7 | 6 |
| ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ | adjective / noun | 7 | 6 |
| ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ | noun / adjective | 7 | 4 |
| ٱلْكِبَرُ | noun | 6 | 6 |
| مُسْتَكْبِرًا | noun | 6 | 5 |
| فَكَبِّرْ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| كِبْرٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْكِبْرِيَآءُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَبِيرًا 14×
- أَكْبَرُ 9×
- كَبِيرٌ 8×
- يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ 7×
- ٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ 7×
- أَكْبَرُ 7×
- ٱلْكَبِيرُ 7×
- كَبُرَ 5×
- فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ 5×
- وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 12× · 7.712 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 11× · 9.024 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 10× · 3.012 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 5× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 5× · 5.663 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 4× · 3.422 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
- ص غ ر ṣ-gh-r 7 shared verses
- ع ل و ʿ-l-w 11 shared verses
- ض ع ف ḍ-ʿ-f 9 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 21 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 23 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 50 shared verses
- م ك ر m-k-r 5 shared verses
- ج ر م j-r-m 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).