Root r-q-b ر ق ب
The root r-q-b (ر ق ب) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 366th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 24 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 366th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 11 / 13 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 9 / 15 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.736651 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:177 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| رَقَبَةٍ | noun | 9 | 7 |
| رَقِيبٌ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| فَٱرْتَقِبْ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| تَرْقُبْ | verb | 3 | 2 |
| يَتَرَقَّبُ | verb | 2 | 1 |
| مُّرْتَقِبُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- رَقَبَةٍ 6×
- ٱلرِّقَابِ 3×
- رَقِيبٌ 2×
- يَتَرَقَّبُ 2×
- فَٱرْتَقِبْ 2×
- رَقِيبًا 1×
- ٱلرَّقِيبَ 1×
- يَرْقُبُوا۟ 1×
- يَرْقُبُونَ 1×
- وَٱرْتَقِبُوٓا۟ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dukhan 3× · 8.671 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 1× · 0.777 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 1× · 1.855 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
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 9 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).