Root q-b-l ق ب ل
The root q-b-l (ق ب ل) occurs 294 times in the Qur'an, the 27th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 282 verses across 64 of the 114 surahs, as 13 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 294 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 27th ● |
| Verses containing it | 282 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 64 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 185 / 109 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 53 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 130 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 109 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 28 / 266 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.207399 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:4 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قَبْلُ | noun / time adverb | 242 | 61 |
| تَقَبَّلْ | verb | 10 | 6 |
| فَأَقْبَلَ | verb | 9 | 6 |
| تُقْبَلَ | verb | 9 | 5 |
| قِبْلَةً | noun | 7 | 2 |
| مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| قِبَلَ | location adverb / noun | 4 | 4 |
| قُبُلًا | noun | 3 | 3 |
| قَبِيلًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مُّسْتَقْبِلَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَقَابِلِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَقَبَآئِلَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- قَبْلُ 68×
- قَبْلِهِمْ 29×
- قَبْلِكَ 28×
- قَبْلِ 25×
- قَبْلَ 20×
- قَبْلِكُمْ 15×
- قَبْلِهِۦ 11×
- قَبْلَهُمْ 9×
- قَبْلِهِم 7×
- قَبْلَهُم 6×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 23× · 3.761 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 13× · 7.316 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 11× · 3.923 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 10× · 3.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 10× · 4.003 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 9× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 9× · 6.742 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 8× · 4.364 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 64 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 58 shared verses
- خ ل و kh-l-w 15 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 105 shared verses
- ع ق ب ʿ-q-b 21 shared verses
- ه ل ك h-l-k 19 shared verses
- ق ر ن q-r-n 13 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 32 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).