Root n-ṣ-r ن ص ر
The root n-ṣ-r (ن ص ر) occurs 158 times in the Qur'an, the 71st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 137 verses across 46 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 158 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 71st ● |
| Verses containing it | 137 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 46 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 66 / 92 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 45 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 92 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 69 / 89 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.379173 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:48 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُنصَرُونَ | verb | 59 | 28 |
| نَصِيرًا | noun / adjective | 35 | 16 |
| بِنَصْرِهِۦ | noun | 22 | 15 |
| نَصَٰرَىٰ | proper noun | 15 | 5 |
| نَّٰصِرِينَ | noun | 11 | 8 |
| يَنتَصِرُونَ | verb | 7 | 5 |
| مُنتَصِرًا | noun | 4 | 4 |
| مَنصُورًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱسْتَنصَرَهُۥ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| تَنَاصَرُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يُنصَرُونَ 11×
- نَصِيرًا 11×
- نَصِيرٍ 7×
- نَّٰصِرِينَ 7×
- وَٱلنَّصَٰرَىٰ 4×
- نَصَٰرَىٰ 4×
- ٱلنَّصَٰرَىٰ 3×
- نَصْرُ 3×
- أَنصَارٍ 3×
- بِنَصْرِهِۦ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 17× · 2.78 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 8× · 6.488 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 8× · 6.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 5× · 5.814 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hashr 5× · 11.236 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
- و ل ي w-l-y 28 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 80 shared verses
- د و ن d-w-n 20 shared verses
- ا ي د a-y-d 5 shared verses
- و ج د w-j-d 12 shared verses
- ه و د h-w-d 6 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 12 shared verses
- ه ج ر h-j-r 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).