Root q-d-r ق د ر
The root q-d-r (ق د ر) occurs 132 times in the Qur'an, the 82nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 121 verses across 58 of the 114 surahs, as 11 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 132 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 82nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 121 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 58 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 86 / 46 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 52 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 46 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 41 / 91 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.413711 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:20 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قَدِيرٌ | noun / adjective | 45 | 27 |
| وَيَقْدِرُ | verb | 25 | 22 |
| قَدَّرَ | verb | 16 | 13 |
| بِقَٰدِرٍ | noun | 14 | 11 |
| بِقَدَرٍ | noun | 11 | 10 |
| ٱلْقَدْرِ | noun | 7 | 5 |
| تَقْدِيرُ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| مُّقْتَدِرًا | noun | 4 | 3 |
| بِمِقْدَارٍ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مَّقْدُورًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَقُدُورٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- قَدِيرٌ 36×
- وَيَقْدِرُ 9×
- قَدِيرًا 5×
- بِقَدَرٍ 5×
- يَقْدِرُونَ 3×
- قَدَرُوا۟ 3×
- تَقْدِيرُ 3×
- لَقَٰدِرُونَ 3×
- بِقَٰدِرٍ 3×
- قَدَّرَ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 5× · 5.663 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 5× · 5.814 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 4× · 11.696 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 3× · 3.517 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
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 64 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 45 shared verses
- ب س ط b-s-ṭ 10 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 31 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 26 shared verses
- ر ز ق r-z-q 14 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 64 shared verses
- م و ه m-w-h 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).