Root

ص-ح-ب

ṣḥb·s9-7-b

97 occurrences89 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَصْحابaṣḥāb78—
صاحِبṣāḥib12—
صاحِبَةṣāḥibah4—
تُصاحِبْtuṣāḥib2—
يُصْحَبُyuṣḥabu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ح-ب

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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يُصْحَبُyuṣḥabu1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ2×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • تُصاحِبْtuṣāḥib2

Covers 3 of this root’s 97 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 ص-ح-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ص-ح-ب falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ح-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 73 of 604 pages (12%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (15 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 30 pages — pages 473–502, juzʾ 24–26.

Occurrences · 97 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 ص-ح-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ح-ب (ṣḥb) occurs 97 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 89 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 ص-ح-ب occur?

89 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ح-ب (ṣḥb), out of 97 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ح-ب?

ص-ح-ب (ṣḥb) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَصْحاب (aṣḥāb, 78×), صاحِب (ṣāḥib, 12×), صاحِبَة (ṣāḥibah, 4×), تُصاحِبْ (tuṣāḥib, 2×), and يُصْحَبُ (yuṣḥabu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.