Root ṣ-w-b ص و ب
The root ṣ-w-b (ص و ب) occurs 77 times in the Qur'an, the 142nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 56 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 77 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 142nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 56 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 25 / 52 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 52 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 64 / 13 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.476884 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَصَابَ | verb | 64 | 26 |
| مُّصِيبَةٌ | noun | 10 | 9 |
| صَوَابًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| كَصَيِّبٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُصِيبُهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تُصِبْهُمْ 5×
- أَصَابَ 5×
- مُّصِيبَةٌ 3×
- أَصَابَهُمْ 3×
- أَصَٰبَكُمْ 3×
- أَصَابَكَ 3×
- مُّصِيبَةٍ 3×
- أَصَٰبَتْهُم 2×
- أَصَٰبَتْكُم 2×
- أَصَابَهُمُ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 9× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 7× · 2.802 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 4× · 4.651 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 3× · 2.355 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 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 39 shared verses
- ح س ن ḥ-s-n 11 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 9 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 13 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 12 shared verses
- ي د ي y-d-y 6 shared verses
- ا ح د a-ḥ-d 5 shared verses
- ا ذ ن a-dh-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).