Root th-w-b ث و ب
The root th-w-b (ث و ب) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 325th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 28 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 325th ● |
| Verses containing it | 23 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 10 / 18 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 4 / 24 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.670848 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:103 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ثَوَابًا | noun | 13 | 5 |
| ثِيَابَهُمْ | noun | 8 | 7 |
| فَأَثَٰبَكُمْ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| لَمَثُوبَةٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَثَابَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ثُوِّبَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ثَوَابَ 4×
- ثَوَابًا 4×
- ثَوَابُ 2×
- ثِيَابَهُمْ 2×
- لَمَثُوبَةٌ 1×
- مَثَابَةً 1×
- ثَوَابِ 1×
- فَأَثَٰبَكُمْ 1×
- ٱلثَّوَابِ 1×
- مَثُوبَةً 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 4× · 2.533 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 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
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 6 shared verses
- ع ن د ʿ-n-d 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 6 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).