Root

ذ-ه-ب

dhhb·dh-h-b

56 occurrences56 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ذَهَبَdhahaba35—
أَذْهَبَadhhaba11—
ذَهَبdhahab8—
ذَهابdhahāb1—
ذاهِبdhāhib1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ذ-ه-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 Iفَعَلَ37×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ذَهَبَdhahaba35
    • ذَهابdhahāb1
    • ذاهِبdhāhib1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ11×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَذْهَبَadhhaba11

Covers 48 of this root’s 56 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-ه-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ذ-ه-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 50 of 604 pages (8%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 46 pages — pages 5–50, juzʾ 1–3.

Occurrences · 56 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-ه-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ذ-ه-ب (dhhb) occurs 56 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 56 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-ه-ب occur?

56 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ذ-ه-ب (dhhb), out of 56 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ذ-ه-ب?

ذ-ه-ب (dhhb) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ذَهَبَ (dhahaba, 35×), أَذْهَبَ (adhhaba, 11×), ذَهَب (dhahab, 8×), ذَهاب (dhahāb, 1×), and ذاهِب (dhāhib, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.