Root ḥ-m-d ح م د
The root ḥ-m-d (ح م د) occurs 63 times in the Qur'an, the 173rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 61 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 63 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 173rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 61 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 40 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 50 / 13 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 37 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1 / 62 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.519169 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:2 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْحَمْدُ | noun | 43 | 31 |
| ٱلْحَمِيدُ | adjective / noun | 17 | 14 |
| ٱلْحَٰمِدُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّحْمُودًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُحْمَدُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْحَمْدُ 26×
- بِحَمْدِ 10×
- ٱلْحَمِيدُ 6×
- حَمِيدٌ 4×
- بِحَمْدِهِۦ 4×
- ٱلْحَمِيدِ 4×
- وَٱلْحَمْدُ 2×
- بِحَمْدِكَ 1×
- يُحْمَدُوا۟ 1×
- حَمِيدًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Isra 4× · 2.571 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 4× · 3.413 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 3× · 2.606 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 3× · 5.495 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 3× · 3.398 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 3× · 3.871 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 3× · 2.461 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 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
- س ب ح s-b-ḥ 16 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 42 shared verses
- غ ن ي gh-n-y 10 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 25 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 17 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 13 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 8 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 15 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).