Root

ح-ب-ب

ḥbb·7-b-b

95 occurrences85 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَحْبَبْaḥbab64—
حُبّḥubb9—
حَبّḥabb7—
حَبَّةḥabbah5—
اسْتَحَبُّāstaḥabbu4—
أَحَبّaḥabb3—
أَحِبّاؤaḥibbā1—
مَحَبَّةmaḥabbah1—
حَبَّبَḥabbaba1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-ب-ب

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 IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • حَبَّبَḥabbaba1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ64×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَحْبَبْaḥbab64
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ4×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَحَبُّāstaḥabbu4

Covers 69 of this root’s 95 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 ح-ب-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ح-ب-ب falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-ب-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 77 of 604 pages (13%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 39 pages — pages 353–391, juzʾ 18–20.

Occurrences · 95 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 ح-ب-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-ب-ب (ḥbb) occurs 95 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 85 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 ح-ب-ب occur?

85 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-ب-ب (ḥbb), out of 95 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-ب-ب?

ح-ب-ب (ḥbb) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَحْبَبْ (aḥbab, 64×), حُبّ (ḥubb, 9×), حَبّ (ḥabb, 7×), حَبَّة (ḥabbah, 5×), and اسْتَحَبُّ (āstaḥabbu, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.