Root sh-f-ʿ ش ف ع
The root sh-f-ʿ (ش ف ع) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 290th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 19 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 31 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 290th ● |
| Verses containing it | 26 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 19 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 23 / 8 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 26 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.617549 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:48 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| شَفَٰعَةٌ | noun | 13 | 10 |
| شَفِيعٍ | noun / adjective | 10 | 7 |
| يَشْفَعْ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| شَٰفِعِينَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَٱلشَّفْعِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- شَفَٰعَةٌ 3×
- شَفِيعٍ 3×
- ٱلشَّفَٰعَةُ 3×
- يَشْفَعْ 2×
- شَفَٰعَةً 2×
- شَفِيعٌ 2×
- ٱلشَّفَٰعَةَ 2×
- شَفَٰعَتُهُمْ 2×
- يَشْفَعُ 1×
- شُفَعَآءَكُمُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muddaththir 2× · 7.843 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 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
- د و ن d-w-n 7 shared verses
- ن ف ع n-f-ʿ 5 shared verses
- ا ذ ن a-dh-n 5 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 6 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 7 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 5 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 7 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).