Root ṣ-b-ḥ ص ب ح
The root ṣ-b-ḥ (ص ب ح) occurs 45 times in the Qur'an, the 216th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 43 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 45 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 216th ● |
| Verses containing it | 43 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 34 / 11 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 29 / 16 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.662534 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:103 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ | verb | 28 | 17 |
| وَٱلصُّبْحِ | noun / time adverb | 5 | 4 |
| مُصْبِحِينَ | noun | 5 | 3 |
| بِمَصَٰبِيحَ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| ٱلْإِصْبَاحِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| صَبَاحُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| صَبَّحَهُم | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ 9×
- فَأَصْبَحَ 5×
- مُصْبِحِينَ 3×
- فَأَصْبَحْتُم 2×
- ٱلصُّبْحُ 2×
- مُّصْبِحِينَ 2×
- وَأَصْبَحَ 2×
- بِمَصَٰبِيحَ 2×
- وَٱلصُّبْحِ 2×
- فَيُصْبِحُوا۟ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 4× · 2.533 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qalam 3× · 10 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 2× · 2.519 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
- ج ث م j-th-m 5 shared verses
- ن د م n-d-m 5 shared verses
- د و ر d-w-r 6 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 6 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 5 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 6 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).