Root

ع-ص-ب

ʿṣb·3-s9-b

5 occurrences5 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عُصْبَةʿuṣbah4—
عَصِيبʿaṣīb1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ص-ب 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 4 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 229 pages — pages 1–229, juzʾ 1–12.

Occurrences · 5 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-ص-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ص-ب (ʿṣb) occurs 5 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 5 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-ص-ب occur?

5 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ص-ب (ʿṣb), out of 5 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ص-ب?

ع-ص-ب (ʿṣb) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عُصْبَة (ʿuṣbah, 4×) and عَصِيب (ʿaṣīb, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.