Root q-s-ṭ ق س ط
The root q-s-ṭ (ق س ط) occurs 25 times in the Qur'an, the 352nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 22 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 25 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 352nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 22 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 9 / 16 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.646375 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:282 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِٱلْقِسْطِ | noun | 15 | 10 |
| ٱلْمُقْسِطِينَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| تُقْسِطُوا۟ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| أَقْسَطُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ | noun | 2 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بِٱلْقِسْطِ 14×
- ٱلْمُقْسِطِينَ 3×
- أَقْسَطُ 2×
- ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ 2×
- تُقْسِطُوا۟ 1×
- ٱلْقِسْطَ 1×
- وَأَقْسِطُوٓا۟ 1×
- وَتُقْسِطُوٓا۟ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hujurat 2× · 5.764 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mumtahanah 2× · 5.747 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jinn 2× · 7.018 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 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
● The ten surahs with the most occurrences, with the rate per 1,000 of each surah's word-units.
Roots it keeps company with
- ع د ل ʿ-d-l 6 shared verses
- و ز ن w-z-n 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 10 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 9 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).