Root w-ḥ-y و ح ي
The root w-ḥ-y (و ح ي) occurs 78 times in the Qur'an, the 139th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 70 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 78 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 139th ● |
| Verses containing it | 70 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 69 / 9 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 49 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 72 / 6 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.481404 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:44 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَوْحَيْنَآ | verb | 72 | 33 |
| وَوَحْيِنَا | noun | 6 | 6 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَوْحَيْنَآ 14×
- يُوحَىٰٓ 13×
- أُوحِىَ 9×
- وَأَوْحَيْنَآ 8×
- نُّوحِىٓ 3×
- فَأَوْحَىٰٓ 3×
- نُوحِيهِ 2×
- وَأُوحِىَ 2×
- يُوحِى 2×
- وَوَحْيِنَا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 8× · 2.623 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 6× · 4.494 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 6× · 6.977 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 5× · 4.277 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Najm 4× · 11.111 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 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
- ت ب ع t-b-ʿ 9 shared verses
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 8 shared verses
- ق ر ا q-r-a 6 shared verses
- ن ذ ر n-dh-r 7 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 11 shared verses
- غ ي ب gh-y-b 5 shared verses
- ل ق ي l-q-y 7 shared verses
- ا م م a-m-m 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).