Root ʿ-h-d ع ه د
The root ʿ-h-d (ع ه د) occurs 46 times in the Qur'an, the 212th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 46 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 212th ● |
| Verses containing it | 36 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 16 / 30 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 17 / 29 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.61845 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:27 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِعَهْدِ | noun | 29 | 14 |
| عَٰهَدُوا۟ | verb | 11 | 6 |
| عَهِدَ | verb | 6 | 6 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَهْدًا 4×
- عَٰهَدُوا۟ 4×
- بِعَهْدِ 4×
- عَهِدَ 3×
- عَهْدَ 2×
- بِعَهْدِهِۦ 2×
- عَهْدَهُمْ 2×
- عَٰهَدتُّم 2×
- عَٰهَدتُّمْ 2×
- عَٰهَدَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 11× · 1.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 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
- و ف ي w-f-y 9 shared verses
- ن ق ض n-q-ḍ 5 shared verses
- ع ن د ʿ-n-d 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 19 shared verses
- و ق ي w-q-y 5 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 9 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).