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Root a-kh-dh ا خ ذ

The root a-kh-dh (ا خ ذ) occurs 273 times in the Qur'an, the 34th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 244 verses across 55 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences273 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots34th ●
Verses containing it244 ●
Surahs containing it55 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs171 / 102 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)67 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)100 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)102 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives260 / 13 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.292417 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:48 ●

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
أَخَذَverb12741
ٱتَّخَذُوا۟verb12437
يُؤَاخِذُverb95
أَخْذًاnoun65
ءَاخِذٌۢnoun33
مُتَّخِذَnoun33
بِٱتِّخَاذِكُمُnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ 17×
  • ٱتَّخَذَ 15×
  • أَخَذْنَا 9×
  • تَتَّخِذُوا۟ 9×
  • أَخَذَ 9×
  • فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ 8×
  • فَأَخَذَهُمُ 7×
  • خُذُوا۟ 5×
  • يَتَّخِذَ 5×
  • تَتَّخِذُوٓا۟ 4×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-A'raf 29× · 8.735 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 25× · 4.088 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Nisa' 23× · 6.138 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Kahf 15× · 9.5 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Ma'idah 13× · 4.636 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Tawbah 10× · 4.003 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Nahl 9× · 4.881 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Furqan 9× · 10.078 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Hud 8× · 4.173 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