Root

س-ط-ر

sṭr·s-t9-r

16 occurrences16 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَساطِيرasāṭīr9—
مَسْطُورmasṭūr3—
مُصَيْطِرmuṣayṭir2—
مُسْتَطَرmustaṭar1—
يَسْطُرُyasṭuru1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-ط-ر

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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • مَسْطُورmasṭūr3
    • يَسْطُرُyasṭuru1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُصَيْطِرmuṣayṭir2
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • مُسْتَطَرmustaṭar1

Covers 7 of this root’s 16 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-ط-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where س-ط-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ط-ر 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 15 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 129 pages — pages 1–129, juzʾ 1–7.

Occurrences · 16 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-ط-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ط-ر (sṭr) occurs 16 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 16 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-ط-ر occur?

16 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ط-ر (sṭr), out of 16 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ط-ر?

س-ط-ر (sṭr) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَساطِير (asāṭīr, 9×), مَسْطُور (masṭūr, 3×), مُصَيْطِر (muṣayṭir, 2×), مُسْتَطَر (mustaṭar, 1×), and يَسْطُرُ (yasṭuru, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.