Root

ر-ق-ب

rqb·r-q-b

24 occurrences20 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَقَبَةraqabah9
رَقِيبraqīb5
ارْتَقِبْārtaqib4
يَرْقُبُyarqubu3
يَتَرَقَّبُyataraqqabu2
مُرْتَقِبmurtaqib1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-ق-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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَرْقُبُyarqubu3
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ2×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَرَقَّبُyataraqqabu2
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ5×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • ارْتَقِبْārtaqib4
    • مُرْتَقِبmurtaqib1

Covers 10 of this root’s 24 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-ق-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ق-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 18 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 85 pages — pages 233317, juzʾ 1216.

Occurrences · 24 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-ق-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ق-ب (rqb) occurs 24 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 20 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-ق-ب occur?

20 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ق-ب (rqb), out of 24 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ق-ب?

ر-ق-ب (rqb) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَقَبَة (raqabah, 9×), رَقِيب (raqīb, 5×), ارْتَقِبْ (ārtaqib, 4×), يَرْقُبُ (yarqubu, 3×), and يَتَرَقَّبُ (yataraqqabu, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.