Root

ب-ص-ر

bṣr·b-s9-r

148 occurrences139 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَصِيرbaṣīr51—
بَصَرbaṣar48—
أَبْصَرَabṣara29—
بَصِيرَةbaṣīrah7—
مُبْصِرmubṣir4—
مُبْصِرَةmubṣirah3—
بَصُرَتْbaṣurat3—
مُسْتَبْصِرmustabṣir1—
تَبْصِرَةtabṣirah1—
يُبَصَّرُyubaṣṣaru1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-ص-ر

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • بَصُرَتْbaṣurat3
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تَبْصِرَةtabṣirah1
    • يُبَصَّرُyubaṣṣaru1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ36×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَبْصَرَabṣara29
    • مُبْصِرmubṣir4
    • مُبْصِرَةmubṣirah3
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • مُسْتَبْصِرmustabṣir1

Covers 42 of this root’s 148 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 ب-ص-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-ص-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 117 of 604 pages (19%)

Densest in juzʾ 29 (16 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 25 pages — pages 187–211, juzʾ 10–11.

Occurrences · 148 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-ص-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-ص-ر (bṣr) occurs 148 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 139 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-ص-ر occur?

139 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-ص-ر (bṣr), out of 148 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-ص-ر?

ب-ص-ر (bṣr) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَصِير (baṣīr, 51×), بَصَر (baṣar, 48×), أَبْصَرَ (abṣara, 29×), بَصِيرَة (baṣīrah, 7×), and مُبْصِر (mubṣir, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.