Root r-b-b ر ب ب
The root r-b-b (ر ب ب) occurs 980 times in the Qur'an, the 4th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 871 verses across 94 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 980 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 4th ● |
| Verses containing it | 871 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 94 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 762 / 218 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 57 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 231 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 474 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 218 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 980 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.270522 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:2 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| رَبِّ | noun | 975 | 94 |
| رَبَّٰنِيِّۦنَ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| وَرَبَٰٓئِبُكُمُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| رِبِّيُّونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- رَبِّ 81×
- رَبِّكَ 81×
- رَبِّى 65×
- رَبِّهِمْ 59×
- رَبَّكَ 52×
- رَبُّكَ 42×
- رَبَّنَا 41×
- رَّبِّكَ 35×
- رَبِّكُمَا 31×
- رَّبِّكُمْ 30×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 65× · 19.578 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 53× · 17.377 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 49× · 8.012 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 44× · 22.953 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 42× · 12.065 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 38× · 24.066 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 36× · 27.314 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rahman 36× · 102.564 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 32× · 20.566 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 27× · 20.225 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
- ق و ل q-w-l 329 shared verses
- ا ل و a-l-w 33 shared verses
- ر ح م r-ḥ-m 91 shared verses
- ع ن د ʿ-n-d 62 shared verses
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 62 shared verses
- ح م د ḥ-m-d 25 shared verses
- س ب ح s-b-ḥ 31 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 67 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).