Root ḥ-y-y ح ي ي
The root ḥ-y-y (ح ي ي) occurs 184 times in the Qur'an, the 54th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 161 verses across 50 of the 114 surahs, as 12 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 184 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 54th ● |
| Verses containing it | 161 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 50 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 122 / 62 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 37 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 78 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 62 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 71 / 113 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.321478 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:26 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ | noun | 76 | 37 |
| يُحْىِۦ | verb | 51 | 28 |
| حَيًّا | noun / adjective | 24 | 14 |
| وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ | verb | 9 | 6 |
| وَنَحْيَا | verb | 7 | 6 |
| تَحِيَّةً | noun | 6 | 6 |
| حَيَّوْكَ | verb | 4 | 2 |
| لَمُحْىِ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَّحْيَاهُمْ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْحَيَوَانُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| حَيَّةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱسْتِحْيَآءٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ 37×
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ 15×
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ 11×
- يُحْىِۦ 10×
- يُحْىِ 6×
- يُحْيِيكُمْ 5×
- ٱلْحَىِّ 5×
- حَيًّا 5×
- فَأَحْيَا 4×
- ٱلْحَىَّ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 19× · 3.107 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 10× · 5.456 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 8× · 2.623 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 8× · 9.792 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 6× · 4.494 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 6× · 4.922 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 6× · 12.295 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
- د ن و d-n-w 66 shared verses
- م و ت m-w-t 65 shared verses
- م ت ع m-t-ʿ 16 shared verses
- ز ي ن z-y-n 13 shared verses
- غ ر ر gh-r-r 8 shared verses
- ع ق ل ʿ-q-l 10 shared verses
- ل ه و l-h-w 6 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 20 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).