Root

س-ب-ع

sbʿ·s-b-3

28 occurrences24 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَبْعsabʿ23—
سَبْعَةsabʿah4—
سَبُعsabuʿ1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with س-ب-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where س-ب-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ب-ع 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 22 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 80 pages — pages 479–558, juzʾ 24–28.

Occurrences · 28 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 س-ب-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ب-ع (sbʿ) occurs 28 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 24 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 س-ب-ع occur?

24 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ب-ع (sbʿ), out of 28 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ب-ع?

س-ب-ع (sbʿ) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَبْع (sabʿ, 23×), سَبْعَة (sabʿah, 4×), and سَبُع (sabuʿ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.