Root

ع-ب-ر

ʿbr·3-b-r

9 occurrences9 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عِبْرَةʿibrah6
عابِرِيʿābirī1
تَعْبُرُtaʿburu1
اعْتَبِرُāʿtabiru1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ب-ر

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • تَعْبُرُtaʿburu1
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اعْتَبِرُāʿtabiru1

Covers 2 of this root’s 9 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ع-ب-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ب-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ب-ر occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 18 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 188 pages — pages 357544, juzʾ 1828.

Occurrences · 9 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ع-ب-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ب-ر (ʿbr) occurs 9 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 9 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ع-ب-ر occur?

9 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ب-ر (ʿbr), out of 9 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ب-ر?

ع-ب-ر (ʿbr) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عِبْرَة (ʿibrah, 6×), عابِرِي (ʿābirī, 1×), تَعْبُرُ (taʿburu, 1×), and اعْتَبِرُ (āʿtabiru, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.