Root r-f-ʿ ر ف ع
The root r-f-ʿ (ر ف ع) occurs 29 times in the Qur'an, the 312th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 29 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 312th ● |
| Verses containing it | 29 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 17 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 22 / 7 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.634897 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:63 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَرَفَعْنَا | verb | 22 | 16 |
| مَّرْفُوعَةٍ | adjective / noun | 3 | 3 |
| ٱلْمَرْفُوعِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَرَافِعُكَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| رَفِيعُ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| رَّافِعَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَرَفَعْنَا 5×
- وَرَفَعَ 3×
- نَرْفَعُ 2×
- رَفَعَ 2×
- يَرْفَعُ 1×
- وَرَافِعُكَ 1×
- رَّفَعَهُ 1×
- لَرَفَعْنَٰهُ 1×
- وَرَفَعْنَٰهُ 1×
- تُرْفَعَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 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
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 2× · 5.277 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ghashiyah 2× · 21.739 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 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
- د ر ج d-r-j 7 shared verses
- ف و ق f-w-q 8 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 5 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 6 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 6 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 6 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).