Root

ب-ح-ر

bḥr·b-7-r

42 occurrences40 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَحْرbaḥr41—
بَحِيرَةbaḥīrah1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-ح-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 35 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 15 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 98 pages — pages 26–123, juzʾ 2–7.

Occurrences · 42 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 ب-ح-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-ح-ر (bḥr) occurs 42 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 40 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 ب-ح-ر occur?

40 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-ح-ر (bḥr), out of 42 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-ح-ر?

ب-ح-ر (bḥr) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَحْر (baḥr, 41×) and بَحِيرَة (baḥīrah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.