Root s-b-ḥ س ب ح
The root s-b-ḥ (س ب ح) occurs 92 times in the Qur'an, the 123rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 87 verses across 49 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 92 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 123rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 87 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 49 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 68 / 24 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 45 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 44 / 48 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.490383 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:30 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| فَسَبِّحْ | verb | 42 | 32 |
| سُبْحَٰنَ | noun | 41 | 27 |
| ٱلْمُسَبِّحُونَ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| سَبْحًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَسْبِيحَهُمْ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| يَسْبَحُونَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| وَٱلسَّٰبِحَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ 12×
- سُبْحَٰنَ 12×
- سُبْحَٰنَكَ 9×
- وَسَبِّحْ 6×
- فَسَبِّحْ 6×
- يُسَبِّحُ 6×
- يُسَبِّحُونَ 5×
- فَسُبْحَٰنَ 3×
- سَبَّحَ 3×
- سُبْحَٰنَهُۥٓ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Isra 7× · 4.499 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 6× · 5.133 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 4× · 3.04 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 4× · 4.651 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- Yasin 3× · 4.138 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tur 3× · 9.615 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
- ح م د ḥ-m-d 16 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 22 shared verses
- و ص ف w-ṣ-f 6 shared verses
- ب ك ر b-k-r 5 shared verses
- ع ل و ʿ-l-w 9 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 31 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 9 shared verses
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).