Root kh-b-r خ ب ر
The root kh-b-r (خ ب ر) occurs 52 times in the Qur'an, the 198th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 52 verses across 31 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 52 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 198th ● |
| Verses containing it | 52 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 31 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 24 / 28 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 52 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.532245 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:234 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| خَبِيرٌ | adjective / noun | 45 | 27 |
| أَخْبَارَكُمْ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| بِخَبَرٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| خُبْرًا | noun | 2 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- خَبِيرٌ 9×
- ٱلْخَبِيرُ 6×
- خَبِيرٌۢ 6×
- خَبِيرٌۢ 5×
- خَبِيرًا 5×
- خَبِيرًا 3×
- خَبِيرًۢا 3×
- خَبِيرٌ 3×
- خَبِيرٍ 2×
- خُبْرًا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 3× · 5.495 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mujadilah 3× · 6.356 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 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
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 22 shared verses
- ل ط ف l-ṭ-f 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 34 shared verses
- ب ص ر b-ṣ-r 7 shared verses
- ش ه د sh-h-d 5 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 6 shared verses
- ع ب د ʿ-b-d 7 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).