Root s-b-q س ب ق
The root s-b-q (س ب ق) occurs 37 times in the Qur'an, the 255th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 35 verses across 24 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 37 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 255th ● |
| Verses containing it | 35 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 24 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 30 / 7 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 26 / 11 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.654391 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:148 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سَبَقَتْ | verb | 20 | 14 |
| وَٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ | noun | 7 | 6 |
| فَٱسْتَبِقُوا۟ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| بِمَسْبُوقِينَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| سَابِقُوٓا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| سَبْقًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فَٱلسَّٰبِقَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سَبَقَتْ 7×
- سَبَقَ 4×
- فَٱسْتَبِقُوا۟ 2×
- سَبَقَكُم 2×
- وَٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ 2×
- تَسْبِقُ 2×
- بِمَسْبُوقِينَ 2×
- سَبَقُوٓا۟ 1×
- نَسْتَبِقُ 1×
- وَٱسْتَبَقَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Mu'minun 3× · 2.857 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 3× · 7.916 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Yasin 2× · 2.759 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nazi'at 2× · 11.173 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
- ك ل م k-l-m 6 shared verses
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 6 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 6 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 6 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 8 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 7 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).