Root ḥ-w-l ح و ل
The root ḥ-w-l (ح و ل) occurs 25 times in the Qur'an, the 350th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 19 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 25 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 350th ● |
| Verses containing it | 25 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 19 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 17 / 8 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.559652 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:17 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| حَوْلَهَا | noun / location adverb / time adverb | 17 | 13 |
| وَحَالَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| تَحْوِيلًا | noun | 3 | 2 |
| حِوَلًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| حِيلَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَحْوِيلًا 3×
- حَوْلَكُم 2×
- حَوْلَهُۥ 2×
- حَوْلَهُۥٓ 2×
- حَوْلَهَا 2×
- حَوْلَهُۥ 1×
- حَوْلَيْنِ 1×
- ٱلْحَوْلِ 1×
- حَوْلِكَ 1×
- حِيلَةً 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 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 ل م ʿ-l-m 7 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 11 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).