Root ʿ-dh-b ع ذ ب
The root ʿ-dh-b (ع ذ ب) occurs 373 times in the Qur'an, the 18th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 336 verses across 68 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 373 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 18th ● |
| Verses containing it | 336 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 68 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 232 / 141 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 57 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 167 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 141 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 41 / 332 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.247979 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عَذَابٌ | noun | 322 | 68 |
| وَيُعَذِّبُ | verb | 41 | 18 |
| بِمُعَذَّبِينَ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| مُعَذِّبَهُمْ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| عَذْبٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَذَابٌ 77×
- عَذَابًا 38×
- عَذَابَ 37×
- ٱلْعَذَابِ 35×
- ٱلْعَذَابَ 28×
- ٱلْعَذَابُ 22×
- عَذَابِ 14×
- عَذَابٍ 13×
- بِعَذَابٍ 11×
- عَذَابُ 9×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 19× · 3.107 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 19× · 5.458 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 19× · 7.606 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 15× · 5.35 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 13× · 3.469 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 13× · 6.781 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 12× · 10.239 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 10× · 3.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 10× · 3.012 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
- ا ل م a-l-m 70 shared verses
- ذ و ق dh-w-q 36 shared verses
- ه و ن h-w-n 19 shared verses
- ش د د sh-d-d 30 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 68 shared verses
- خ ز ي kh-z-y 13 shared verses
- د ن و d-n-w 28 shared verses
- ع ظ م ʿ-ẓ-m 26 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).