Root q-ṣ-ṣ ق ص ص
The root q-ṣ-ṣ (ق ص ص) occurs 30 times in the Qur'an, the 304th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 30 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 304th ● |
| Verses containing it | 25 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 23 / 7 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 20 / 10 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.565521 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:178 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نَقُصُّ | verb | 20 | 11 |
| ٱلْقَصَصَ | noun | 6 | 5 |
| قِصَاصٌ | noun | 4 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- نَقُصُّ 4×
- قِصَاصٌ 2×
- يَقُصُّ 2×
- يَقُصُّونَ 2×
- ٱلْقَصَصَ 2×
- قَصَصْنَا 2×
- ٱلْقِصَاصُ 1×
- ٱلْقِصَاصِ 1×
- ٱلْقَصَصُ 1×
- قَصَصْنَٰهُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 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
- ن ب ا n-b-a 5 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 5 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 5 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 8 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).