Root k-s-b ك س ب
The root k-s-b (ك س ب) occurs 67 times in the Qur'an, the 164th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 60 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 67 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 164th ● |
| Verses containing it | 60 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 38 / 29 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 29 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 67 / 0 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.509924 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:79 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَسَبَتْ | verb | 62 | 25 |
| ٱكْتَسَبُوا۟ | verb | 5 | 4 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَسَبَتْ 16×
- يَكْسِبُونَ 14×
- كَسَبُوا۟ 14×
- تَكْسِبُونَ 4×
- كَسَبَ 3×
- كَسَبْتُمْ 3×
- تَكْسِبُ 3×
- ٱكْتَسَبُوا۟ 2×
- يَكْسِبْ 2×
- ٱكْتَسَبَتْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 7× · 2.295 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 5× · 4.266 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 3× · 3.488 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 3× · 6.148 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 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
- ن ف س n-f-s 15 shared verses
- ج ز ي j-z-y 10 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 14 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 26 shared verses
- ا ث م a-th-m 5 shared verses
- غ ن ي gh-n-y 6 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 11 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).