all roots
ا ل ه
worship, being the one worshipped
2,851 words across 1879 ayat of the Quran counted, not estimated

What the letters mean

الهمزة واللام والهاء أصل واحد، وهو التعبد

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha

Ibn Fāris held that every root carries one core sense, and that every word built on it keeps that sense somewhere. This line is his statement of it for these three letters. Who he is

Where it appears

The first 12 of 1879 ayat containing a word from this root.

1:11:22:72:82:92:102:152:172:192:202:222:23

Read about it

Bismillah: the phrase that waits for you Two words in, and neither one means what I assumed. One comes from a root about height. The other is not about divinity at all. And together they are not even a complete sentence, which turns out to be the point.

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