Root kh-l-q خ ل ق
The root kh-l-q (خ ل ق) occurs 261 times in the Qur'an, the 35th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 218 verses across 75 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 261 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 35th ● |
| Verses containing it | 218 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 75 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 215 / 46 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 61 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 140 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 46 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 184 / 77 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.363666 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:21 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| خَلَقَ | verb | 184 | 71 |
| ٱلْخَلْقَ | noun | 52 | 30 |
| خَٰلِقُ | noun / adjective | 12 | 12 |
| بِخَلَٰقِهِمْ | noun | 6 | 3 |
| مُخَلَّقَةٍ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| ٱلْخَلَّٰقُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| خُلُقٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱخْتِلَٰقٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- خَلَقَ 58×
- خَلَقْنَا 18×
- يَخْلُقُ 11×
- خَلَقَكُمْ 8×
- خَلَقَكُم 8×
- ٱلْخَلْقَ 8×
- خَلْقٍ 7×
- خَلْقًا 7×
- خَلَقْنَٰكُمْ 6×
- خَلْقِ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 10× · 9.524 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 10× · 12.24 per 1,000 word-units
- Yasin 10× · 13.793 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 8× · 6.826 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 7× · 2.295 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 7× · 4.499 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 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
- س م و s-m-w 66 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 64 shared verses
- ط ي ن ṭ-y-n 10 shared verses
- ن ط ف n-ṭ-f 9 shared verses
- ج د د j-d-d 8 shared verses
- ب د ا b-d-a 9 shared verses
- س ت ت s-t-t 7 shared verses
- ا ن س a-n-s 19 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).