Root

ق-ب-ل

qbl·q-b-l

294 occurrences282 verses13 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَبْلqabl242—
تَقَبَّلَtaqabbala10—
يَقْبَلُyaqbalu9—
أَقْبَلَaqbala9—
قِبْلَةqiblah7—
قِبَلqibal4—
مُتَقابِلmutaqābil4—
قُبُلqubul3—
قَبِيلqabīl2—
قَبُولqabūl1—
قابِلqābil1—
مُسْتَقْبِلmustaqbil1—
قَبائِلqabāʾil1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-ب-ل

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 Iفَعَلَ10×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَقْبَلُyaqbalu9
    • قابِلqābil1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ9×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَقْبَلَaqbala9
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ10×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَقَبَّلَtaqabbala10
  4. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ4×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • مُتَقابِلmutaqābil4
  5. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • مُسْتَقْبِلmustaqbil1

Covers 34 of this root’s 294 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 ق-ب-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ق-ب-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-ب-ل 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 218 of 604 pages (36%)

Densest in juzʾ 13 (20 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 34 pages — pages 571–604, juzʾ 29–30.

Occurrences · 294 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 ق-ب-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-ب-ل (qbl) occurs 294 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 282 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 ق-ب-ل occur?

282 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-ب-ل (qbl), out of 294 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-ب-ل?

ق-ب-ل (qbl) yields 13 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَبْل (qabl, 242×), تَقَبَّلَ (taqabbala, 10×), يَقْبَلُ (yaqbalu, 9×), أَقْبَلَ (aqbala, 9×), and قِبْلَة (qiblah, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.