Root s-ḥ-r س ح ر
The root s-ḥ-r (س ح ر) occurs 63 times in the Qur'an, the 176th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 59 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 63 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 176th ● |
| Verses containing it | 59 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 59 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 60 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.631833 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:102 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سِحْرٌ | noun | 28 | 19 |
| ٱلسَّحَرَةُ | noun | 22 | 8 |
| مَّسْحُورًا | noun | 4 | 3 |
| بِسَحَرٍ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| تُسْحَرُونَ | verb | 3 | 2 |
| ٱلْمُسَحَّرِينَ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| سَحَّارٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سِحْرٌ 12×
- ٱلسَّحَرَةُ 7×
- ٱلسِّحْرَ 4×
- لَسَٰحِرٌ 3×
- سَٰحِرٍ 3×
- سَٰحِرٌ 3×
- بِسِحْرٍ 2×
- مَّسْحُورًا 2×
- ٱلسَّاحِرُ 2×
- ٱلْمُسَحَّرِينَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Taha 10× · 7.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 10× · 7.587 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 7× · 3.819 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dhariyat 3× · 8.333 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 2× · 5.848 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 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
- ق و ل q-w-l 44 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 18 shared verses
- ل ق ي l-q-y 9 shared verses
- ر ج ل r-j-l 6 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 14 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 6 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 11 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).