Root l-b-th ل ب ث
The root l-b-th (ل ب ث) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 297th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 27 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 31 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 297th ● |
| Verses containing it | 27 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 27 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 30 / 1 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.686266 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:259 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| لَبِثْتُمْ | verb | 30 | 16 |
| لَّٰبِثِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- لَّبِثْتُمْ 4×
- لَبِثْتُمْ 4×
- يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ 3×
- لَبِثُوا۟ 3×
- لَبِثْتُ 2×
- فَلَبِثَ 2×
- لَبِثْنَا 2×
- لَبِثْتَ 1×
- لَّبِثْتَ 1×
- لَبِثَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 6× · 3.8 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 3× · 2.857 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 2× · 2.448 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 1× · 0.759 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
- س ن و s-n-w 6 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 11 shared verses
- ب ع ث b-ʿ-th 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 13 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 8 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).