Root t-w-b ت و ب
The root t-w-b (ت و ب) occurs 87 times in the Qur'an, the 128th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 69 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 87 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 128th ● |
| Verses containing it | 69 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 23 / 64 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 64 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 63 / 24 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.549427 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:37 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَابَ | verb | 63 | 22 |
| ٱلتَّوَّابُ | noun / adjective | 12 | 6 |
| تَوْبَةً | noun | 7 | 5 |
| مَتَابًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَٰٓئِبَٰتٍ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلتَّٰٓئِبُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلتَّوْبِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَابَ 11×
- تَابُوا۟ 10×
- ٱلتَّوَّابُ 6×
- فَتَابَ 5×
- يَتُوبُ 5×
- تُوبُوٓا۟ 5×
- يَتُوبَ 4×
- يَتُوبُونَ 3×
- تُبْتُ 3×
- تُبْتُمْ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 17× · 6.805 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 5× · 2.608 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 4× · 4.479 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tahrim 4× · 16.064 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 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
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 25 shared verses
- ر ح م r-ḥ-m 29 shared verses
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 17 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 41 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 15 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 12 shared verses
- ع س ي ʿ-s-y 5 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).