Root r-ḥ-m ر ح م
The root r-ḥ-m (ر ح م) occurs 339 times in the Qur'an, the 21st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 313 verses across 62 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 339 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 21st ● |
| Verses containing it | 313 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 62 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 226 / 113 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 85 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 136 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 113 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 28 / 311 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.253484 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:1 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| رَّحِيمٌ | adjective / noun | 116 | 42 |
| رَحْمَةً | noun | 114 | 37 |
| ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ | noun / adjective | 57 | 18 |
| تُرْحَمُونَ | verb | 28 | 17 |
| ٱلْأَرْحَامِ | noun | 12 | 11 |
| ٱلرَّٰحِمِينَ | noun | 6 | 4 |
| أَرْحَمُ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| رُحْمًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- رَّحِيمٌ 56×
- ٱلرَّحِيمُ 27×
- رَحْمَةً 20×
- ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ 16×
- رَّحِيمًا 16×
- ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ 14×
- وَرَحْمَةً 13×
- وَرَحْمَةٌ 11×
- لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ 9×
- تُرْحَمُونَ 8×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 20× · 3.27 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 20× · 20.812 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 18× · 5.422 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 16× · 4.27 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 13× · 4.262 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 13× · 5.204 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 13× · 6.781 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 11× · 7.069 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 10× · 2.873 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 10× · 8.554 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
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 91 shared verses
- ت و ب t-w-b 29 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 91 shared verses
- ر ا ف r-a-f 10 shared verses
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 20 shared verses
- ع ز ز ʿ-z-z 20 shared verses
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 14 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 130 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).