Root s-kh-r س خ ر
The root s-kh-r (س خ ر) occurs 42 times in the Qur'an, the 234th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 35 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 42 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 234th ● |
| Verses containing it | 35 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 33 / 9 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 34 / 8 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.666953 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:164 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَسَخَّرَ | verb | 22 | 13 |
| سَخِرُوا۟ | verb | 11 | 7 |
| مُسَخَّرَٰتٌۢ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| سِخْرِيًّا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْمُسَخَّرِ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| سُخْرِيًّا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلسَّٰخِرِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَسْتَسْخِرُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَسَخَّرَ 11×
- سَخَّرَ 5×
- سَخِرُوا۟ 3×
- وَيَسْخَرُونَ 2×
- سَخَّرَهَا 2×
- سِخْرِيًّا 2×
- ٱلْمُسَخَّرِ 1×
- مُسَخَّرَٰتٍۭ 1×
- فَيَسْخَرُونَ 1×
- سَخِرَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 4× · 4.819 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 3× · 2.355 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 3× · 4.093 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 2× · 3.663 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 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 م ر q-m-r 8 shared verses
- ش م س sh-m-s 8 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 9 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 14 shared verses
- ف ل ك f-l-k 6 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 8 shared verses
- ن ه ر n-h-r 8 shared verses
- ب ح ر b-ḥ-r 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).