Root ʿ-q-l ع ق ل
The root ʿ-q-l (ع ق ل) occurs 49 times in the Qur'an, the 204th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 49 verses across 30 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 49 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 204th ● |
| Verses containing it | 49 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 30 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 30 / 19 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 49 / 0 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.443848 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:44 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَعْقِلُونَ | verb | 49 | 30 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَعْقِلُونَ 24×
- يَعْقِلُونَ 22×
- عَقَلُوهُ 1×
- يَعْقِلُهَآ 1×
- نَعْقِلُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 2× · 2.448 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
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 10 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 13 shared verses
- م و ت m-w-t 7 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 8 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 5 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 8 shared verses
- س م ع s-m-ʿ 6 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).