Root

ص-و-ب

ṣwb·s9-w-b

77 occurrences56 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَصابَaṣāba64
مُصِيبَةmuṣībah10
صَيِّبṣayyib1
مُصِيبmuṣīb1
صَوابṣawāb1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-و-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 49 of 604 pages (8%)

Densest in juzʾ 4 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 62 pages — pages 271332, juzʾ 1417.

Occurrences · 77 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-و-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-و-ب (ṣwb) occurs 77 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 56 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-و-ب occur?

56 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-و-ب (ṣwb), out of 77 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-و-ب?

ص-و-ب (ṣwb) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَصابَ (aṣāba, 64×), مُصِيبَة (muṣībah, 10×), صَيِّب (ṣayyib, 1×), مُصِيب (muṣīb, 1×), and صَواب (ṣawāb, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.