Root

ذ-ب-ح

dhbḥ·dh-b-7

9 occurrences9 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ذُبِحَdhubiḥa5
يُذَبِّحُyudhabbiḥu3
ذِبْحdhibḥ1

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

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 Iفَعَلَ5×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ذُبِحَdhubiḥa5
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ3×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُذَبِّحُyudhabbiḥu3

Covers 8 of this root’s 9 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 ذ-ب-ح more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ذ-ب-ح 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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 1 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 154 pages — pages 451604, juzʾ 2330.

Occurrences · 9 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 ذ-ب-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ذ-ب-ح (dhbḥ) occurs 9 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 9 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 ذ-ب-ح occur?

9 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ذ-ب-ح (dhbḥ), out of 9 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ذ-ب-ح?

ذ-ب-ح (dhbḥ) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ذُبِحَ (dhubiḥa, 5×), يُذَبِّحُ (yudhabbiḥu, 3×), and ذِبْح (dhibḥ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.