Root ṣ-ḥ-b ص ح ب
The root ṣ-ḥ-b (ص ح ب) occurs 97 times in the Qur'an, the 117th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 89 verses across 47 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 97 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 117th ● |
| Verses containing it | 89 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 47 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 71 / 26 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 36 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 94 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.450343 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:39 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَصْحَٰبُ | noun | 78 | 37 |
| لِصَٰحِبِهِۦ | noun | 10 | 9 |
| وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| يَٰصَىٰحِبَىِ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| تُصَٰحِبْنِى | verb | 2 | 2 |
| يُصْحَبُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَصْحَٰبُ 41×
- أَصْحَٰبِ 10×
- أَصْحَٰبَ 10×
- وَأَصْحَٰبُ 8×
- لِصَٰحِبِهِۦ 2×
- يَٰصَىٰحِبَىِ 2×
- وَأَصْحَٰبَ 2×
- لِّأَصْحَٰبِ 2×
- وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ 2×
- وَٱلصَّاحِبِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Waqi'ah 11× · 29.024 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 10× · 3.012 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 4× · 2.533 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hashr 3× · 6.742 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 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
- ن و ر n-w-r 21 shared verses
- خ ل د kh-l-d 16 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 16 shared verses
- ج ح م j-ḥ-m 6 shared verses
- ي م ن y-m-n 8 shared verses
- ن د و n-d-w 6 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 18 shared verses
- ك ذ ب k-dh-b 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).