Root

ر-ي-ب

ryb·r-y-b

36 occurrences35 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَيْبrayb18—
ارْتابَārtāba9—
مُرِيبmurīb7—
رِيبَةrībah1—
مُرْتابmurtāb1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-ي-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 IVأَفْعَلَ7×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُرِيبmurīb7
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ9×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • ارْتابَārtāba9

Covers 16 of this root’s 36 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-ي-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ي-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 34 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 25 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 64 pages — pages 130–193, juzʾ 7–10.

Occurrences · 36 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-ي-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ي-ب (ryb) occurs 36 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 35 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-ي-ب occur?

35 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ي-ب (ryb), out of 36 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ي-ب?

ر-ي-ب (ryb) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَيْب (rayb, 18×), ارْتابَ (ārtāba, 9×), مُرِيب (murīb, 7×), رِيبَة (rībah, 1×), and مُرْتاب (murtāb, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.