Root

س-ب-ل

sbl·s-b-l

176 occurrences164 verses1 form

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَبِيلsabīl176—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ب-ل 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 139 of 604 pages (23%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (22 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 26 pages — pages 428–453, juzʾ 22–23.

Occurrences · 176 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-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ب-ل (sbl) occurs 176 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 164 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-ل occur?

164 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ب-ل (sbl), out of 176 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ب-ل?

س-ب-ل (sbl) yields 1 distinct derived form in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَبِيل (sabīl, 176×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.