Root kh-y-r خ ي ر
The root kh-y-r (خ ي ر) occurs 196 times in the Qur'an, the 48th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 178 verses across 55 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 196 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 48th ● |
| Verses containing it | 178 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 55 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 103 / 93 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 36 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 58 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 93 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 6 / 190 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.315959 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:54 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| خَيْرٌ | noun / adjective | 178 | 52 |
| ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ | noun | 10 | 8 |
| وَيَخْتَارُ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| ٱلْخِيَرَةُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَخَيَّرُونَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- خَيْرٌ 57×
- خَيْرًا 32×
- خَيْرٌ 21×
- خَيْرُ 20×
- خَيْرٍ 13×
- ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ 7×
- بِخَيْرٍ 6×
- خَيْرًا 5×
- خَيْرَ 4×
- ٱلْخَيْرِ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 27× · 4.415 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 14× · 4.022 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 8× · 5.066 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 7× · 6.667 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 7× · 4.895 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 6× · 3.376 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 5× · 4.055 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 99 shared verses
- ب ق ي b-q-y 8 shared verses
- د ن و d-n-w 15 shared verses
- ع ر ف ʿ-r-f 10 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 41 shared verses
- ش ر ر sh-r-r 7 shared verses
- ث و ب th-w-b 6 shared verses
- ع س ي ʿ-s-y 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).