Root ḥ-f-ẓ ح ف ظ
The root ḥ-f-ẓ (ح ف ظ) occurs 44 times in the Qur'an, the 221st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 42 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 44 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 221st ● |
| Verses containing it | 42 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 31 / 13 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 12 / 32 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.621537 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:238 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| حَٰفِظِينَ | noun | 13 | 10 |
| حَفِيظٌ | noun / adjective | 12 | 7 |
| حَفِظَ | verb | 7 | 6 |
| يُحَافِظُونَ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| وَحِفْظًا | noun | 3 | 3 |
| حَٰفِظَٰتٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَّحْفُوظًا | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱسْتُحْفِظُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- حَفِيظًا 3×
- يُحَافِظُونَ 3×
- حَفِيظٌ 3×
- لَحَٰفِظُونَ 3×
- حَٰفِظِينَ 3×
- بِحَفِيظٍ 2×
- حَٰفِظُونَ 2×
- وَحِفْظًا 2×
- حَٰفِظُوا۟ 1×
- حِفْظُهُمَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 6× · 3.376 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 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
- ف ر ج f-r-j 5 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 7 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 7 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 8 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 7 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 15 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).