Root

ص-و-م

ṣwm·s9-w-m

14 occurrences11 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
صِيامṣīām9—
يَصُمْyaṣum2—
صَوْمṣawm1—
صائِمṣāʾim1—
صائِمَةṣāʾimah1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-و-م 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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 183 pages — pages 124–306, juzʾ 7–16.

Occurrences · 14 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-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-و-م (ṣwm) occurs 14 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 11 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-م occur?

11 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-و-م (ṣwm), out of 14 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-و-م?

ص-و-م (ṣwm) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently صِيام (ṣīām, 9×), يَصُمْ (yaṣum, 2×), صَوْم (ṣawm, 1×), صائِم (ṣāʾim, 1×), and صائِمَة (ṣāʾimah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.