Root

ع-ص-ي

ʿṣy·3-s9-y

32 occurrences32 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عَصاʿaṣā27—
عَصِيّʿaṣiyy2—
مَعْصِيَتmaʿṣīat2—
عِصْيانʿiṣyān1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ص-ي 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 31 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 80 pages — pages 130–209, juzʾ 7–11.

Occurrences · 32 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-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ص-ي (ʿṣy) occurs 32 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 32 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-ي occur?

32 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ص-ي (ʿṣy), out of 32 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ص-ي?

ع-ص-ي (ʿṣy) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عَصا (ʿaṣā, 27×), عَصِيّ (ʿaṣiyy, 2×), مَعْصِيَت (maʿṣīat, 2×), and عِصْيان (ʿiṣyān, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.