Root

ع-ظ-م

ʿẓm·3-z9-m

128 occurrences127 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عَظِيمʿaẓīm107—
عِظامʿiẓām13—
أَعْظَمaʿẓam3—
عَظْمʿaẓm2—
يُعَظِّمْyuʿaẓẓim2—
يُعْظِمْyuʿẓim1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ظ-م

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 IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُعَظِّمْyuʿaẓẓim2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُعْظِمْyuʿẓim1

Covers 3 of this root’s 128 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-ظ-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ظ-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ظ-م 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 108 of 604 pages (18%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 23 pages — pages 19–41, juzʾ 1–2.

Occurrences · 128 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-ظ-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ظ-م (ʿẓm) occurs 128 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 127 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-ظ-م occur?

127 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ظ-م (ʿẓm), out of 128 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ظ-م?

ع-ظ-م (ʿẓm) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عَظِيم (ʿaẓīm, 107×), عِظام (ʿiẓām, 13×), أَعْظَم (aʿẓam, 3×), عَظْم (ʿaẓm, 2×), and يُعَظِّمْ (yuʿaẓẓim, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.