Root ʿ-q-b ع ق ب
The root ʿ-q-b (ع ق ب) occurs 80 times in the Qur'an, the 137th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 74 verses across 32 of the 114 surahs, as 11 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 80 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 137th ● |
| Verses containing it | 74 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 32 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 46 / 34 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 9 / 71 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.503552 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:143 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عَٰقِبَةُ | noun | 32 | 20 |
| ٱلْعِقَابِ | noun | 20 | 11 |
| أَعْقَٰبِكُمْ | noun | 8 | 6 |
| عَاقَبَ | verb | 6 | 3 |
| عُقْبَى | noun | 6 | 2 |
| ٱلْعَقَبَةَ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| يُعَقِّبْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| فَأَعْقَبَهُمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| عُقْبًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُعَقِّبَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُعَقِّبَٰتٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَٰقِبَةُ 26×
- ٱلْعِقَابِ 16×
- عُقْبَى 4×
- عَقِبَيْهِ 3×
- أَعْقَٰبِكُمْ 3×
- وَٱلْعَٰقِبَةُ 3×
- عِقَابِ 3×
- يُعَقِّبْ 2×
- أَعْقَابِنَا 1×
- فَأَعْقَبَهُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ra'd 9× · 10.551 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 5× · 4.055 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 5× · 4.102 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 4× · 3.475 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 4× · 2.797 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 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
- ك ي ف k-y-f 23 shared verses
- ن ظ ر n-ẓ-r 21 shared verses
- ش د د sh-d-d 18 shared verses
- س ي ر s-y-r 11 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 21 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 35 shared verses
- د و ر d-w-r 7 shared verses
- ق و ي q-w-y 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).