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Root ḥ-y-n ح ي ن

The root ḥ-y-n (ح ي ن) occurs 35 times in the Qur'an, the 265th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 33 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences35 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots265th ●
Verses containing it33 ●
Surahs containing it23 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs29 / 6 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)8 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)21 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 35 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.607218 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:36 ●

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
حِينٍnoun / time adverb3523

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

Most frequent written forms

  • حِينٍ 13×
  • حِينَ 10×
  • وَحِينَ 4×
  • حِينَ 2×
  • حِينٍۭ 2×
  • وَحِينَ 1×
  • حِينِ 1×
  • حِينَئِذٍ 1×
  • حِينٌ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Rum 3× · 3.672 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Saffat 3× · 3.488 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Sad 2× · 2.729 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 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