Root n-f-ʿ ن ف ع
The root n-f-ʿ (ن ف ع) occurs 50 times in the Qur'an, the 202nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 49 verses across 31 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 50 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 202nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 49 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 31 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 32 / 18 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 31 / 19 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.492464 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:102 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَنفَعُ | verb | 31 | 24 |
| نَفْعًا | noun | 11 | 11 |
| مَنَٰفِعُ | noun | 8 | 7 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَنفَعُ 8×
- نَفْعًا 7×
- يَنفَعُهُمْ 4×
- مَنَٰفِعُ 4×
- وَمَنَٰفِعُ 3×
- تَنفَعُ 3×
- يَنفَعُكُمْ 2×
- يَنفَعَنَآ 2×
- يَنفَعَكُمُ 2×
- تَنفَعُهَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 3× · 2.461 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 2× · 2.24 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 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
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 17 shared verses
- ش ف ع sh-f-ʿ 5 shared verses
- د و ن d-w-n 9 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 10 shared verses
- ب ا س b-a-s 5 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 10 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 20 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 24 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).