Root

ص-ب-ر

ṣbr·s9-b-r

103 occurrences93 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
صَبَرَṣabara58—
صابِرṣābir20—
صَبْرṣabr15—
صَبّارṣabbār4—
اصْطَبِرْāṣṭabir3—
صابِرَةṣābirah2—
صابِرُṣābiru1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ب-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 Iفَعَلَ80×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • صَبَرَṣabara58
    • صابِرṣābir20
    • صابِرَةṣābirah2
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • صابِرُṣābiru1
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ3×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اصْطَبِرْāṣṭabir3

Covers 84 of this root’s 103 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-ب-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ب-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 79 of 604 pages (13%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 48 pages — pages 83–130, juzʾ 5–7.

Occurrences · 103 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-ب-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ب-ر (ṣbr) occurs 103 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 93 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-ب-ر occur?

93 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ب-ر (ṣbr), out of 103 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ب-ر?

ص-ب-ر (ṣbr) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently صَبَرَ (ṣabara, 58×), صابِر (ṣābir, 20×), صَبْر (ṣabr, 15×), صَبّار (ṣabbār, 4×), and اصْطَبِرْ (āṣṭabir, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.