Root k-f-r ك ف ر
The root k-f-r (ك ف ر) occurs 525 times in the Qur'an, the 9th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 465 verses across 77 of the 114 surahs, as 14 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 525 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 9th ● |
| Verses containing it | 465 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 77 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 233 / 292 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 54 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 170 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 292 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 304 / 221 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.286913 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:6 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَفَرُوا۟ | verb | 289 | 62 |
| ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ | noun / adjective | 129 | 52 |
| ٱلْكُفْرَ | noun | 37 | 13 |
| ٱلْكُفَّارَ | noun | 27 | 17 |
| يُكَفِّرْ | verb | 14 | 12 |
| كَفُورًا | adjective / noun | 12 | 9 |
| كَفَّارٌ | adjective / noun | 5 | 5 |
| فَكَفَّٰرَتُهُۥٓ | noun | 4 | 1 |
| كُفُورًا | noun | 3 | 2 |
| أَكْفَرَهُۥ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| كَافِرَةٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| كَافُورًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَفَرُوا۟ 166×
- ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ 43×
- كَفَرُوٓا۟ 23×
- كَفَرَ 18×
- ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ 17×
- لِلْكَٰفِرِينَ 16×
- كَٰفِرُونَ 15×
- يَكْفُرُونَ 12×
- تَكْفُرُونَ 11×
- ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ 9×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 47× · 7.685 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 43× · 12.353 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 38× · 10.141 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 31× · 11.056 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 31× · 12.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 17× · 13.788 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 13× · 10.664 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 11× · 12.896 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 11× · 14.194 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
- ا م ن a-m-n 126 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 225 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 68 shared verses
- ن و ر n-w-r 44 shared verses
- ا ل م a-l-m 22 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 28 shared verses
- ص د د ṣ-d-d 14 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 31 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).