Root sh-q-q ش ق ق
The root sh-q-q (ش ق ق) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 317th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 28 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 317th ● |
| Verses containing it | 25 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 14 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 17 / 11 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.653431 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:74 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| شَآقُّوا۟ | verb | 7 | 5 |
| شِقَاقٍۭ | noun | 7 | 6 |
| وَتَنشَقُّ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| تَشَقَّقُ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| أَشُقَّ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| شَقًّا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بِشِقِّ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلشُّقَّةُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| أَشَقُّ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- شِقَاقٍۭ 3×
- يُشَاقِقِ 2×
- شَآقُّوا۟ 2×
- تَشَقَّقُ 2×
- يَشَّقَّقُ 1×
- شِقَاقٍ 1×
- شِقَاقَ 1×
- ٱلشُّقَّةُ 1×
- شِقَاقِىٓ 1×
- أَشَقُّ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hashr 2× · 4.494 per 1,000 word-units
- 'Abasa 2× · 15.038 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 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
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 8 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 11 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).