Root ḥ-k-m ح ك م
The root ḥ-k-m (ح ك م) occurs 210 times in the Qur'an, the 44th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 189 verses across 57 of the 114 surahs, as 13 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 210 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 44th ● |
| Verses containing it | 189 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 57 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 93 / 117 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 71 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 117 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 50 / 160 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.294239 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:32 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| حَكِيمٌ | adjective / noun | 97 | 42 |
| يَحْكُمُ | verb | 45 | 21 |
| حُكْمًا | noun | 30 | 18 |
| وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ | noun | 20 | 12 |
| ٱلْحَٰكِمِينَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| حَكَمًا | noun | 3 | 2 |
| أَحْكَمُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| أُحْكِمَتْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| يُحَكِّمُوكَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْحُكَّامِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُّحْكَمَٰتٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| مُّحْكَمَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- حَكِيمٌ 31×
- ٱلْحَكِيمُ 28×
- حَكِيمًا 15×
- يَحْكُمُ 10×
- وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ 9×
- ٱلْحَكِيمِ 9×
- حُكْمًا 8×
- ٱلْحُكْمُ 6×
- فَٱحْكُم 5×
- ٱلْحَكِيمُ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 22× · 5.871 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 19× · 6.776 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 16× · 2.616 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 12× · 3.447 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 10× · 3.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 8× · 4.502 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 6× · 4.559 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 5× · 4.055 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 5× · 4.277 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
- ع ز ز ʿ-z-z 49 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 127 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 71 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 41 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 31 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 22 shared verses
- خ ل ف kh-l-f 12 shared verses
- ب ل غ b-l-gh 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).