Root ḥ-b-b ح ب ب
The root ḥ-b-b (ح ب ب) occurs 95 times in the Qur'an, the 121st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 85 verses across 35 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 95 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 121st ● |
| Verses containing it | 85 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 35 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 34 / 61 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 61 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 69 / 26 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.469967 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:165 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُحِبُّ | verb | 64 | 24 |
| حُبًّا | noun | 9 | 7 |
| حَبًّا | noun | 7 | 6 |
| حَبَّةٍ | noun | 5 | 4 |
| ٱسْتَحَبُّوا۟ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| أَحَبُّ | adjective / noun | 3 | 2 |
| وَأَحِبَّٰٓؤُهُۥ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| حَبَّبَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| مَحَبَّةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يُحِبُّ 39×
- تُحِبُّونَ 6×
- حَبَّةٍ 5×
- حَبًّا 4×
- يُحِبُّونَ 4×
- حُبًّا 3×
- حُبِّهِۦ 2×
- ٱسْتَحَبُّوا۟ 2×
- أَحَبُّ 2×
- يُحِبُّونَهُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hujurat 3× · 8.646 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 ه a-l-h 57 shared verses
- ع ف و ʿ-f-w 6 shared verses
- ن ب ت n-b-t 5 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 11 shared verses
- د ن و d-n-w 8 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 8 shared verses
- س ك ن s-k-n 5 shared verses
- ح س ن ḥ-s-n 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).