Root s-b-ʿ س ب ع
The root s-b-ʿ (س ب ع) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 323rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 28 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 323rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 24 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 22 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 28 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.698154 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:29 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سَبْعَ | noun / time adverb | 23 | 13 |
| سَبْعَةُ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| ٱلسَّبُعُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سَبْعَ 9×
- سَبْعٌ 3×
- سَبْعِينَ 2×
- سَبْعَةُ 2×
- سَبْعًا 2×
- وَسَبْعَةٍ 1×
- ٱلسَّبُعُ 1×
- وَسَبْعَ 1×
- سَبْعِ 1×
- وَسَبْعِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 8× · 4.502 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Haqqah 2× · 7.752 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 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
- ا ك ل a-k-l 5 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 7 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 5 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 7 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).