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Root ṣ-d-q ص د ق

The root ṣ-d-q (ص د ق) occurs 155 times in the Qur'an, the 72nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 144 verses across 49 of the 114 surahs, as 19 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences155 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots72nd ●
Verses containing it144 ●
Surahs containing it49 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs79 / 76 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)3 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)24 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)52 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)76 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives31 / 124 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.350539 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:23 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
صَٰدِقِينَnoun5934
مُصَدِّقًاnoun / adjective199
صَدَقُوا۟verb1513
صِدْقٍnoun1410
وَصَدَّقَverb109
ٱلصَّدَقَٰتِnoun83
تَصَدَّقَverb66
صَدَقَةًnoun54
صِدِّيقًاnoun54
أَصْدَقُnoun21
صَدِيقٍnoun22
وَٱلْمُتَصَدِّقِينَnoun22

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • صَٰدِقِينَ 31×
  • ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ 17×
  • مُصَدِّقًا 9×
  • صِدْقٍ 7×
  • صَدَقُوا۟ 5×
  • ٱلصَّدَقَٰتِ 5×
  • لَصَٰدِقُونَ 4×
  • وَصَدَّقَ 3×
  • مُصَدِّقٌ 2×
  • صَدَقَةٍ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 16× · 2.616 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 10× · 2.873 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Ahzab 10× · 7.77 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Yusuf 9× · 5.065 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Yunus 5× · 2.728 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Shu'ara 5× · 3.794 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order