Root a-l-h ا ل ه
The root a-l-h (ا ل ه) occurs 2,851 times in the Qur'an, the 1st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 1,879 verses across 86 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 2,851 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 1st ● |
| Verses containing it | 1,879 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 86 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 1,092 / 1,759 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 248 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 812 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1,759 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 2,851 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.268369 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:1 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱللَّهِ | proper noun | 2,699 | 85 |
| إِلَٰهَ | noun | 147 | 45 |
| ٱللَّهُمَّ | proper noun | 5 | 5 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱللَّهِ 828×
- ٱللَّهُ 733×
- ٱللَّهَ 592×
- وَٱللَّهُ 239×
- بِٱللَّهِ 139×
- لِلَّهِ 102×
- إِلَٰهَ 37×
- وَلِلَّهِ 27×
- إِلَٰهٌ 18×
- إِلَٰهًا 16×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 289× · 47.253 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 231× · 61.649 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 215× · 61.764 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 172× · 68.855 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 151× · 53.852 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 93× · 30.492 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 90× · 69.93 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 89× · 72.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 89× · 48.265 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 80× · 60.79 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
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 408 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 282 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 372 shared verses
- د و ن d-w-n 109 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 127 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 112 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 124 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 185 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).