Root

ق-س-م

qsm·q-s-m

33 occurrences31 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَقْسَمُaqsamu20—
قِسْمَةqismah3—
قَسَمْqasam2—
قَسَمqasam2—
تَسْتَقْسِمُtastaqsimu1—
قاسَمَqāsama1—
مَقْسُومmaqsūm1—
مُقْتَسِمmuqtasim1—
تَقاسَمُtaqāsamu1—
مُقَسِّمَةmuqassimah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-س-م

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قَسَمْqasam2
    • مَقْسُومmaqsūm1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُقَسِّمَةmuqassimah1
  3. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • قاسَمَqāsama1
  4. Form IVأَفْعَلَ20×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَقْسَمُaqsamu20
  5. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَقاسَمُtaqāsamu1
  6. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • مُقْتَسِمmuqtasim1
  7. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • تَسْتَقْسِمُtastaqsimu1

Covers 28 of this root’s 33 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-س-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-س-م 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 28 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 29 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 104 pages — pages 157–260, juzʾ 8–13.

Occurrences · 33 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-س-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-س-م (qsm) occurs 33 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 31 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-س-م occur?

31 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-س-م (qsm), out of 33 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-س-م?

ق-س-م (qsm) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَقْسَمُ (aqsamu, 20×), قِسْمَة (qismah, 3×), قَسَمْ (qasam, 2×), قَسَم (qasam, 2×), and تَسْتَقْسِمُ (tastaqsimu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.