Root ḥ-w-ṭ ح و ط
The root ḥ-w-ṭ (ح و ط) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 320th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 27 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 28 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 320th ● |
| Verses containing it | 27 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 18 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 17 / 11 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.605932 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:19 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَحَاطَ | verb | 17 | 10 |
| مُحِيطٌ | noun | 9 | 7 |
| لَمُحِيطَةٌۢ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَحَاطَ 4×
- مُحِيطٌ 3×
- يُحِيطُونَ 2×
- لَمُحِيطَةٌۢ 2×
- تُحِطْ 2×
- مُّحِيطٌۢ 2×
- مُحِيطٌۢ 1×
- وَأَحَٰطَتْ 1×
- مُحِيطًا 1×
- مُّحِيطًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 4× · 2.533 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 3× · 2.606 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 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
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 8 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 6 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 10 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 6 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).