Root

م-س-ح

msḥ·m-s-7

15 occurrences12 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَسِيحmasīḥ11—
امْسَحُāmsaḥu3—
مَسْحmasḥ1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with م-س-ح more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where م-س-ح falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-س-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 6 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 263 pages — pages 192–454, juzʾ 10–23.

Occurrences · 15 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 م-س-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-س-ح (msḥ) occurs 15 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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 م-س-ح occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-س-ح (msḥ), out of 15 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-س-ح?

م-س-ح (msḥ) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَسِيح (masīḥ, 11×), امْسَحُ (āmsaḥu, 3×), and مَسْح (masḥ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.