Root

ك-ذ-ب

kdhb·k-dh-b

282 occurrences257 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
كَذَّبَkadhdhaba176—
كَذِبkadhib33—
كاذِبkādhib32—
مُكَذِّبmukadhdhib21—
كَذَبَkadhaba11—
كَذّابkadhdhāb5—
كِذّابkidhdhāb2—
مَكْذُوبmakdhūb1—
تَكْذِيبtakdhīb1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ذ-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 Iفَعَلَ44×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • كاذِبkādhib32
    • كَذَبَkadhaba11
    • مَكْذُوبmakdhūb1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ200×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • كَذَّبَkadhdhaba176
    • مُكَذِّبmukadhdhib21
    • كِذّابkidhdhāb2
    • تَكْذِيبtakdhīb1

Covers 244 of this root’s 282 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 ك-ذ-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ذ-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 162 of 604 pages (27%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (49 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 37 pages — pages 14–50, juzʾ 1–3.

Occurrences · 282 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 ك-ذ-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ذ-ب (kdhb) occurs 282 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 257 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 ك-ذ-ب occur?

257 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ذ-ب (kdhb), out of 282 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ذ-ب?

ك-ذ-ب (kdhb) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently كَذَّبَ (kadhdhaba, 176×), كَذِب (kadhib, 33×), كاذِب (kādhib, 32×), مُكَذِّب (mukadhdhib, 21×), and كَذَبَ (kadhaba, 11×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.