Root

ك-ت-ب

ktb·k-t-b

319 occurrences279 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
كِتابkitāb260—
كَتَبَkataba49—
كاتِبkātib6—
مَكْتُوبmaktūb1—
كاتِبُkātibu1—
اكْتَتَبَāktataba1—
كِتابِيkitābī1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ت-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 Iفَعَلَ56×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • كَتَبَkataba49
    • كاتِبkātib6
    • مَكْتُوبmaktūb1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • كاتِبُkātibu1
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اكْتَتَبَāktataba1

Covers 58 of this root’s 319 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-ت-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ت-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 205 of 604 pages (34%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (33 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 13 pages — pages 236–248, juzʾ 12–13.

Occurrences · 319 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-ت-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ت-ب (ktb) occurs 319 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 279 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-ت-ب occur?

279 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ت-ب (ktb), out of 319 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ت-ب?

ك-ت-ب (ktb) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently كِتاب (kitāb, 260×), كَتَبَ (kataba, 49×), كاتِب (kātib, 6×), مَكْتُوب (maktūb, 1×), and كاتِبُ (kātibu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.