Root kh-w-f خ و ف
The root kh-w-f (خ و ف) occurs 124 times in the Qur'an, the 92nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 112 verses across 42 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 124 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 92nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 112 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 42 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 77 / 47 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 47 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 87 / 37 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.338092 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:38 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَخَافُ | verb | 83 | 38 |
| خَوْفٌ | noun | 26 | 16 |
| خِيفَةً | noun | 6 | 6 |
| يُخَوِّفُ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| خَآئِفًا | noun | 3 | 2 |
| تَخَوُّفٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَخْوِيفًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَخَافُ 20×
- خَوْفٌ 14×
- تَخَفْ 9×
- يَخَافُونَ 8×
- خِفْتُمْ 7×
- خَافَ 5×
- يَخَافُ 5×
- تَخَافُونَ 4×
- خَوْفًا 4×
- خِيفَةً 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 8× · 5.594 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 7× · 5.243 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 6× · 3.13 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 4× · 3.035 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
- ح ز ن ḥ-z-n 18 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 19 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 32 shared verses
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 12 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 24 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 15 shared verses
- ض ر ب ḍ-r-b 5 shared verses
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).