Root s-b-l س ب ل
The root s-b-l (س ب ل) occurs 176 times in the Qur'an, the 57th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 164 verses across 47 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 176 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 57th ● |
| Verses containing it | 164 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 47 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 75 / 101 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 50 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 101 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 176 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.371213 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:108 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سَبِيلِ | noun | 176 | 47 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سَبِيلِ 72×
- سَبِيلًا 28×
- ٱلسَّبِيلِ 20×
- سَبِيلِهِۦ 10×
- سَبِيلَ 7×
- سَبِيلٍ 6×
- ٱلسَّبِيلَ 6×
- سُبُلًا 4×
- سَبِيلِى 2×
- سُبُلَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 27× · 7.206 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 16× · 6.405 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 14× · 2.289 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 7× · 3.796 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 7× · 4.499 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 7× · 7.839 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 6× · 4.866 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
- ص د د ṣ-d-d 25 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 112 shared verses
- ض ل ل ḍ-l-l 34 shared verses
- ج ه د j-h-d 16 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 24 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 29 shared verses
- م و ل m-w-l 16 shared verses
- ه ج ر h-j-r 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).