Root n-ṣ-b ن ص ب
The root n-ṣ-b (ن ص ب) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 285th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 19 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 285th ● |
| Verses containing it | 29 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 19 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 15 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 30 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.612663 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:202 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نَصِيبًا | noun | 21 | 10 |
| نَصَبٌ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| نُصُبٍ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| فَٱنصَبْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| بِنُصْبٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَّاصِبَةٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- نَصِيبٌ 8×
- نَصِيبًا 8×
- نَصَبٌ 3×
- نَصِيبَهُمْ 2×
- ٱلنُّصُبِ 1×
- وَٱلْأَنصَابُ 1×
- نَصِيبُهُم 1×
- نَصَبًا 1×
- نَصِيبَكَ 1×
- بِنُصْبٍ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ghashiyah 2× · 21.739 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 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 ت ي a-t-y 8 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 11 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).