Root kh-l-w خ ل و
The root kh-l-w (خ ل و) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 326th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 28 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 28 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 326th ● |
| Verses containing it | 28 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 12 / 16 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 27 / 1 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.616468 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:14 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| خَلَتْ | verb | 25 | 15 |
| وَتَخَلَّتْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْخَالِيَةِ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| فَخَلُّوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- خَلَتْ 13×
- خَلَوْا۟ 7×
- خَلَا 2×
- خَلَتِ 2×
- فَخَلُّوا۟ 1×
- يَخْلُ 1×
- ٱلْخَالِيَةِ 1×
- وَتَخَلَّتْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 3× · 4.666 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 2× · 1.554 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 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
- ق ب ل q-b-l 15 shared verses
- س ن ن s-n-n 6 shared verses
- ا م م a-m-m 8 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 9 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 10 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).