Root kh-ṭ-a خ ط ا
The root kh-ṭ-a (خ ط ا) occurs 22 times in the Qur'an, the 385th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 13 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 22 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 385th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 13 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 15 / 7 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 20 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.697645 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:58 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| خَطَٰيَٰكُمْ | noun | 8 | 5 |
| خَٰطِـِٔينَ | noun | 5 | 3 |
| أَخْطَأْتُم | verb | 2 | 2 |
| بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| خَطَـًٔا | noun | 2 | 1 |
| خَطِيٓـَٰٔتِكُمْ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| خِطْـًٔا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- خَطَٰيَٰكُمْ 2×
- خَطَـًٔا 2×
- خَٰطِـِٔينَ 2×
- خَطِيٓـَٔتُهُۥ 1×
- أَخْطَأْنَا 1×
- خَطِيٓـَٔةً 1×
- خَطِيٓـَٰٔتِكُمْ 1×
- ٱلْخَاطِـِٔينَ 1×
- لَخَٰطِـِٔينَ 1×
- خِطْـًٔا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Haqqah 2× · 7.752 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 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
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 9 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).