Root w-ʿ-d و ع د
The root w-ʿ-d (و ع د) occurs 151 times in the Qur'an, the 74th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 130 verses across 51 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 151 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 74th ● |
| Verses containing it | 130 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 51 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 116 / 35 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 41 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 72 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 35 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 76 / 75 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.384927 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:51 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تُوعَدُونَ | verb | 70 | 39 |
| وَعْدَ | noun | 49 | 28 |
| مَوْعِدًا | noun | 12 | 5 |
| ٱلْمِيعَادَ | noun | 6 | 5 |
| وَعِيدِ | noun | 6 | 3 |
| تُوَاعِدُوهُنَّ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| ٱلْمَوْعُودِ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| مَّوْعِدَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَوَاعَدتُّمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| تُوعِدُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَعْدَ 17×
- تُوعَدُونَ 12×
- وَعَدَ 10×
- يُوعَدُونَ 10×
- وَعْدًا 7×
- ٱلْوَعْدُ 7×
- وَعْدُ 7×
- ٱلْمِيعَادَ 4×
- تَعِدُنَآ 4×
- نَعِدُهُمْ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Taha 9× · 6.742 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 7× · 4.499 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 6× · 3.8 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 6× · 5.133 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 6× · 9.331 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 5× · 2.608 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 5× · 6.024 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 5× · 4.762 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 د ق ṣ-d-q 19 shared verses
- خ ل ف kh-l-f 16 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 23 shared verses
- غ ر ر gh-r-r 6 shared verses
- س و ع s-w-ʿ 6 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 19 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 12 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 39 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).