Root

س-م-ع

smʿ·s-m-3

185 occurrences163 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَمِعَsamiʿa78—
سَمِيعsamīʿ47—
سَمْعsamʿ22—
اسْتَمَعَāstamaʿa16—
أَسْمَعَasmaʿa13—
سَمّاعsammāʿ4—
مُسْتَمِعmustamiʿ2—
مُسْمَعmusmaʿ1—
مُسْمِعmusmiʿ1—
يَسَّمَّعُyassammaʿu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-م-ع

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 Iفَعَلَ78×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • سَمِعَsamiʿa78
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ15×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَسْمَعَasmaʿa13
    • مُسْمَعmusmaʿ1
    • مُسْمِعmusmiʿ1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَسَّمَّعُyassammaʿu1
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ18×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اسْتَمَعَāstamaʿa16
    • مُسْتَمِعmustamiʿ2

Covers 112 of this root’s 185 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 س-م-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-م-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 138 of 604 pages (23%)

Densest in juzʾ 9 (13 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 20 pages — pages 143–162, juzʾ 8–9.

Occurrences · 185 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-م-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-م-ع (smʿ) occurs 185 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 163 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-م-ع occur?

163 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-م-ع (smʿ), out of 185 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-م-ع?

س-م-ع (smʿ) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَمِعَ (samiʿa, 78×), سَمِيع (samīʿ, 47×), سَمْع (samʿ, 22×), اسْتَمَعَ (āstamaʿa, 16×), and أَسْمَعَ (asmaʿa, 13×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.