Root

ب-س-ط

bsṭ·b-s-t9

25 occurrences23 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَسَطَbasaṭa16—
باسِطbāsiṭ4—
بَصطَةbaṣṭah2—
مَبْسُوطَتانmabsūṭatān1—
بَسْطbasṭ1—
بِساطbisāṭ1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ب-س-ط falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-س-ط 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 21 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 99 pages — pages 296–394, juzʾ 15–20.

Occurrences · 25 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-س-ط appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-س-ط (bsṭ) occurs 25 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 23 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-س-ط occur?

23 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-س-ط (bsṭ), out of 25 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-س-ط?

ب-س-ط (bsṭ) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَسَطَ (basaṭa, 16×), باسِط (bāsiṭ, 4×), بَصطَة (baṣṭah, 2×), مَبْسُوطَتان (mabsūṭatān, 1×), and بَسْط (basṭ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.