Root ẓ-h-r ظ ه ر
The root ẓ-h-r (ظ ه ر) occurs 59 times in the Qur'an, the 185th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 57 verses across 30 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 59 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 185th ● |
| Verses containing it | 57 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 30 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 33 / 26 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 26 / 33 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.569397 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:85 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ظُهُورِهِمْ | noun | 15 | 11 |
| ظَهَرَ | verb | 10 | 7 |
| لِيُظْهِرَهُۥ | verb | 8 | 8 |
| ظَٰهِرًا | noun | 8 | 7 |
| يُظَٰهِرُونَ | verb | 6 | 4 |
| ظَهِيرًا | noun / adjective | 6 | 5 |
| ظَٰهِرَةً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَظَٰهَرَا | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ظِهْرِيًّا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلظَّهِيرَةِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ظُهُورِهِمْ 5×
- ظَهَرَ 4×
- يَظْهَرُوا۟ 3×
- لِيُظْهِرَهُۥ 3×
- ظَهِيرًا 2×
- ظَٰهِرًا 2×
- ظَهِيرًا 2×
- تَظَٰهَرَا 2×
- ظَٰهِرَةً 2×
- ظَٰهِرِينَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 5× · 2.002 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 3× · 3.672 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tahrim 3× · 12.048 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 2× · 1.554 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
- ب ط ن b-ṭ-n 6 shared verses
- و ر ي w-r-y 6 shared verses
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 8 shared verses
- ح ر م ḥ-r-m 5 shared verses
- ب ع ض b-ʿ-ḍ 5 shared verses
- د ي ن d-y-n 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 23 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).