Root q-l-b ق ل ب
The root q-l-b (ق ل ب) occurs 168 times in the Qur'an, the 63rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 155 verses across 48 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 168 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 63rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 155 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 48 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 58 / 110 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 42 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 110 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 25 / 143 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.406372 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قُلُوبِهِمْ | noun | 132 | 43 |
| فَتَنقَلِبُوا۟ | verb | 17 | 12 |
| يُقَلِّبُ | verb | 6 | 5 |
| تَقَلُّبَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| مُنقَلِبُونَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مُنقَلَبًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مُتَقَلَّبَكُمْ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَتَقَلَّبُ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| تُقْلَبُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- قُلُوبِهِمْ 25×
- قُلُوبُهُمْ 15×
- قُلُوبِهِم 12×
- قُلُوبِ 9×
- قُلُوبِكُمْ 8×
- قُلُوبِهِمُ 5×
- ٱلْقُلُوبُ 5×
- قُلُوبُنَا 4×
- قُلُوبَهُمْ 4×
- قَلْبِكَ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 15× · 4.309 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 15× · 6.005 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 11× · 8.547 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 9× · 7.299 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 8× · 6.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 7× · 5.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 6× · 3.8 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 6× · 10.714 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
- ط ب ع ṭ-b-ʿ 11 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 94 shared verses
- م ر ض m-r-ḍ 12 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 49 shared verses
- ق س و q-s-w 6 shared verses
- ر ع ب r-ʿ-b 5 shared verses
- ط م ن ṭ-m-n 7 shared verses
- ف ق ه f-q-h 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).