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Root ḥ-d-th ح د ث

The root ḥ-d-th (ح د ث) occurs 36 times in the Qur'an, the 259th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 28 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences36 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots259th ●
Verses containing it36 ●
Surahs containing it28 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs27 / 9 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)17 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)9 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives6 / 30 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.668332 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:76 ●

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
ٱلْحَدِيثِnoun2822
أَتُحَدِّثُونَهُمverb33
يُحْدِثُverb33
مُحْدَثٍnoun22

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلْحَدِيثِ 6×
  • حَدِيثًا 5×
  • حَدِيثُ 5×
  • حَدِيثٍۭ 3×
  • ٱلْأَحَادِيثِ 3×
  • حَدِيثٍ 2×
  • يُحْدِثُ 2×
  • أَحَادِيثَ 2×
  • أَتُحَدِّثُونَهُم 1×
  • أُحْدِثَ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Shu'ara 1× · 0.759 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