Root a-kh-dh ا خ ذ
The root a-kh-dh (ا خ ذ) occurs 273 times in the Qur'an, the 34th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 244 verses across 55 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 273 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 34th ● |
| Verses containing it | 244 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 55 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 171 / 102 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 67 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 100 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 102 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 260 / 13 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.292417 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:48 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَخَذَ | verb | 127 | 41 |
| ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ | verb | 124 | 37 |
| يُؤَاخِذُ | verb | 9 | 5 |
| أَخْذًا | noun | 6 | 5 |
| ءَاخِذٌۢ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مُتَّخِذَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| بِٱتِّخَاذِكُمُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ 17×
- ٱتَّخَذَ 15×
- أَخَذْنَا 9×
- تَتَّخِذُوا۟ 9×
- أَخَذَ 9×
- فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ 8×
- فَأَخَذَهُمُ 7×
- خُذُوا۟ 5×
- يَتَّخِذَ 5×
- تَتَّخِذُوٓا۟ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 29× · 8.735 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 25× · 4.088 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 23× · 6.138 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 15× · 9.5 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 13× · 4.636 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 10× · 4.003 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 9× · 4.881 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 9× · 10.078 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 8× · 4.173 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
- د و ن d-w-n 33 shared verses
- و ث ق w-th-q 15 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 29 shared verses
- ه ز ا h-z-a 12 shared verses
- ج ث م j-th-m 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 113 shared verses
- ص ي ح ṣ-y-ḥ 7 shared verses
- و ل د w-l-d 15 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).