Root w-h-b و ه ب
The root w-h-b (و ه ب) occurs 25 times in the Qur'an, the 356th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 22 verses across 12 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 25 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 356th ● |
| Verses containing it | 22 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 12 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 21 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 22 / 3 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.788062 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:8 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَوَهَبْنَا | verb | 22 | 12 |
| ٱلْوَهَّابُ | noun / adjective | 3 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَوَهَبْنَا 8×
- هَبْ 4×
- وَهَبْ 2×
- ٱلْوَهَّابُ 2×
- وَهَبَ 1×
- فَهَبْ 1×
- لِأَهَبَ 1×
- وَهَبْنَا 1×
- فَوَهَبَ 1×
- وَهَبَتْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Maryam 5× · 5.203 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 5× · 6.821 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 1× · 1.12 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 1× · 1.025 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
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 10 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 6 shared verses
- ر ح م r-ḥ-m 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).