Root ṣ-l-ḥ ص ل ح
The root ṣ-l-ḥ (ص ل ح) occurs 180 times in the Qur'an, the 56th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 170 verses across 54 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 180 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 56th ● |
| Verses containing it | 170 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 54 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 113 / 67 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 39 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 70 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 67 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 30 / 150 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.295084 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:11 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| صَٰلِحًا | noun / adjective | 65 | 38 |
| ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ | noun | 62 | 36 |
| وَأَصْلَحَ | verb | 28 | 18 |
| صَٰلِحًا | proper noun | 9 | 4 |
| إِصْلَٰحًا | noun | 7 | 4 |
| مُصْلِحُونَ | noun | 5 | 4 |
| صَلَحَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| صُلْحًا | noun | 2 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ 59×
- صَٰلِحًا 31×
- ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ 17×
- وَأَصْلَحَ 6×
- صَٰلِحًا 5×
- وَأَصْلَحُوا۟ 4×
- ٱلصَّٰلِحُونَ 3×
- فَأَصْلِحُوا۟ 3×
- مُصْلِحُونَ 2×
- إِصْلَٰحًا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 14× · 3.736 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 13× · 3.916 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 9× · 4.695 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 7× · 4.433 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 6× · 5.133 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 5× · 5.123 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 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
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 93 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 82 shared verses
- ا ج ر a-j-r 25 shared verses
- ت و ب t-w-b 17 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 20 shared verses
- ت ح ت t-ḥ-t 14 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 25 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).