Root

س-ب-ب

sbb·s-b-b

11 occurrences10 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَبَبsabab9—
يَسُبُّyasubbu2—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ب-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 6 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 161 pages — pages 142–302, juzʾ 8–16.

Occurrences · 11 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-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ب-ب (sbb) occurs 11 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 10 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-ب occur?

10 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ب-ب (sbb), out of 11 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ب-ب?

س-ب-ب (sbb) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَبَب (sabab, 9×) and يَسُبُّ (yasubbu, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.