Root

ر-ك-ب

rkb·r-k-b

15 occurrences15 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَكِبَrakiba9
رُكْبانrukbān1
مُتَراكِبmutarākib1
رَكْبrakb1
رَكُوبrakūb1
رِكابrikāb1
رَكَّبَrakkaba1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-ك-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 Iفَعَلَ9×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • رَكِبَrakiba9
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • رَكَّبَrakkaba1
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • مُتَراكِبmutarākib1

Covers 11 of this root’s 15 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 ر-ك-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ك-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 14 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 102 pages — pages 302403, juzʾ 1621.

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 ر-ك-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ك-ب (rkb) occurs 15 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 15 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 ر-ك-ب occur?

15 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ك-ب (rkb), out of 15 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ك-ب?

ر-ك-ب (rkb) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَكِبَ (rakiba, 9×), رُكْبان (rukbān, 1×), مُتَراكِب (mutarākib, 1×), رَكْب (rakb, 1×), and رَكُوب (rakūb, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.