Root kh-f-y خ ف ي
The root kh-f-y (خ ف ي) occurs 34 times in the Qur'an, the 272nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 31 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 34 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 272nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 31 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 19 / 15 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 27 / 7 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.57439 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:271 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تُخْفُوهُ | verb | 18 | 13 |
| يَخْفَىٰ | verb | 6 | 6 |
| يَسْتَخْفُونَ | verb | 3 | 2 |
| خَفِىٍّ | adjective | 2 | 2 |
| وَخُفْيَةً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَأَخْفَى | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُسْتَخْفٍۭ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| خَافِيَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَخْفَىٰ 4×
- تُخْفُوهُ 3×
- تُخْفِى 2×
- يُخْفُونَ 2×
- يَسْتَخْفُونَ 2×
- تُخْفُونَ 2×
- وَخُفْيَةً 2×
- تُخْفُوهَا 1×
- تُخْفُوا۟ 1×
- وَتُخْفُونَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 2× · 1.554 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Haqqah 2× · 7.752 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 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
- ب د و b-d-w 11 shared verses
- ص د ر ṣ-d-r 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 13 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 10 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 17 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 11 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).