Root t-b-ʿ ت ب ع
The root t-b-ʿ (ت ب ع) occurs 172 times in the Qur'an, the 58th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 156 verses across 51 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 172 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 58th ● |
| Verses containing it | 156 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 51 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 112 / 60 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 65 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 60 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 160 / 12 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.314164 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:38 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَتَّبِعُونَ | verb | 136 | 46 |
| أَتْبَعَ | verb | 15 | 12 |
| تَبِعَكَ | verb | 9 | 7 |
| بِتَابِعٍ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| مُتَتَابِعَيْنِ | adjective | 2 | 2 |
| مُّتَّبَعُونَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَبَعًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| فَٱتِّبَاعٌۢ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَبِيعًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱتَّبَعَ 8×
- يَتَّبِعُونَ 8×
- تَتَّبِعُوا۟ 7×
- وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ 6×
- ٱتَّبِعُوا۟ 6×
- تَتَّبِعْ 6×
- ٱتَّبَعُوا۟ 5×
- وَٱتَّبَعَ 5×
- أَتَّبِعُ 5×
- ٱتَّبَعَكَ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 19× · 3.107 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 12× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 11× · 3.16 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 10× · 3.279 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 8× · 4.364 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 8× · 5.993 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 7× · 4.895 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 6× · 3.13 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 6× · 3.8 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
- ه و ي h-w-y 22 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 25 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 59 shared verses
- ظ ن ن ẓ-n-n 9 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 15 shared verses
- م ل ل m-l-l 5 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 36 shared verses
- و ح ي w-ḥ-y 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).