Root n-f-kh (ن ف خ), 20 occurrences

Root n-f-kh ن ف خ

The root n-f-kh (ن ف خ) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 406th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 18 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences	20 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots	406th ●
Verses containing it	18 ●
Surahs containing it	17 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs	17 / 3 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)	0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)	5 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)	12 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)	3 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives	19 / 1 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)	0.737545 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence	3:49 ●

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
وَنُفِخَ	verb	19	17
نَفْخَةٌ	noun	1	1

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

يُنفَخُ 4×
وَنُفِخَ 4×
نُفِخَ 3×
وَنَفَخْتُ 2×
فَنَفَخْنَا 2×
فَأَنفُخُ 1×
فَتَنفُخُ 1×
ٱنفُخُوا۟ 1×
وَنَفَخَ 1×
نَفْخَةٌ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
al-Haqqah 2× · 7.752 per 1,000 word-units
Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 per 1,000 word-units
Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 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 و ر ṣ-w-r 10 shared verses
ر و ح r-w-ḥ 6 shared verses
ي و م y-w-m 5 shared verses

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

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