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Root w-k-l و ك ل

The root w-k-l (و ك ل) occurs 70 times in the Qur'an, the 158th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 61 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences70 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots158th ●
Verses containing it61 ●
Surahs containing it29 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs44 / 26 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)37 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)26 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives42 / 28 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.503997 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence3:122 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِverb4024
وَكِيلًاnoun2413
ٱلْمُتَوَكِّلُونَnoun44
وَكَّلْنَاverb22

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • وَكِيلًا 13×
  • فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ 9×
  • وَتَوَكَّلْ 7×
  • تَوَكَّلْتُ 7×
  • بِوَكِيلٍ 5×
  • وَكِيلٌ 5×
  • يَتَوَكَّلُونَ 5×
  • تَوَكَّلْنَا 4×
  • ٱلْمُتَوَكِّلُونَ 3×
  • فَتَوَكَّلْ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Ibrahim 4× · 4.819 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Zumar 4× · 3.413 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order