Root ṣ-b-r ص ب ر
The root ṣ-b-r (ص ب ر) occurs 103 times in the Qur'an, the 110th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 93 verses across 45 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 103 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 110th ● |
| Verses containing it | 93 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 45 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 71 / 32 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 49 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 62 / 41 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.418969 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:45 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| صَبَرُوا۟ | verb | 58 | 34 |
| ٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ | noun / adjective | 20 | 13 |
| صَبْرًا | noun | 15 | 8 |
| صَبَّارٍ | adjective | 4 | 4 |
| وَٱصْطَبِرْ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| صَابِرَةٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| وَصَابِرُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱلصَّٰبِرَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- صَبَرُوا۟ 11×
- فَٱصْبِرْ 11×
- ٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ 10×
- صَبْرًا 8×
- وَٱصْبِرْ 7×
- تَصْبِرُوا۟ 5×
- بِٱلصَّبْرِ 4×
- وَٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ 4×
- صَبَّارٍ 4×
- وَٱصْطَبِرْ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 8× · 5.066 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 7× · 3.796 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 5× · 4.055 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 3× · 3.359 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
- ط و ع ṭ-w-ʿ 9 shared verses
- ا ج ر a-j-r 8 shared verses
- ص ل و ṣ-l-w 7 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 11 shared verses
- ع ق ب ʿ-q-b 6 shared verses
- و ق ي w-q-y 10 shared verses
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 9 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 23 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).