Root q-t-l ق ت ل
The root q-t-l (ق ت ل) occurs 170 times in the Qur'an, the 60th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 122 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 170 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 60th ● |
| Verses containing it | 122 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 37 / 133 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 133 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 145 / 25 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.515908 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:54 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قُتِلَ | verb | 83 | 26 |
| يُقَٰتِلُوكُمْ | verb | 54 | 16 |
| ٱلْقِتَالُ | noun | 13 | 6 |
| ٱلْقَتْلِ | noun | 10 | 7 |
| سَنُقَتِّلُ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| ٱقْتَتَلُوا۟ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| ٱلْقَتْلَى | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَقْتِيلًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- قُتِلَ 6×
- يُقَٰتِلُوكُمْ 5×
- ٱلْقِتَالُ 5×
- يُقَٰتِلُونَ 5×
- وَيَقْتُلُونَ 4×
- تَقْتُلُونَ 4×
- يُقَٰتِلُونَكُمْ 4×
- ٱلْقَتْلِ 4×
- قُتِلُوا۟ 4×
- قَتَلَ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 31× · 5.069 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 25× · 6.672 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 21× · 6.033 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 13× · 4.636 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 13× · 5.204 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 7× · 4.895 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 6× · 4.866 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 6× · 4.662 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 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 ل ه a-l-h 79 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 24 shared verses
- خ ر ج kh-r-j 17 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 22 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 28 shared verses
- ح ر م ḥ-r-m 11 shared verses
- ع د و ʿ-d-w 12 shared verses
- د ي ن d-y-n 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).