Root

ت-ب-ع

tbʿ·t-b-3

172 occurrences156 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اتَّبَعَāttabaʿa136—
أَتْبَعَatbaʿa15—
تَبِعَtabiʿa9—
تابِعtābiʿ3—
اتِّباعāttibāʿ2—
مُتَتابِعَيْنmutatābiʿayn2—
تَبَعtabaʿ2—
مُتَّبَعmuttabaʿ2—
تَبِيعtabīʿ1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ت-ب-ع

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 Iفَعَلَ12×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • تَبِعَtabiʿa9
    • تابِعtābiʿ3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ15×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَتْبَعَatbaʿa15
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ2×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • مُتَتابِعَيْنmutatābiʿayn2
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ140×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اتَّبَعَāttabaʿa136
    • اتِّباعāttibāʿ2
    • مُتَّبَعmuttabaʿ2

Covers 169 of this root’s 172 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 ت-ب-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ت-ب-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ت-ب-ع 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 132 of 604 pages (22%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (13 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 28 pages — pages 543–570, juzʾ 28–29.

Occurrences · 172 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 ت-ب-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ت-ب-ع (tbʿ) occurs 172 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 156 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 ت-ب-ع occur?

156 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ت-ب-ع (tbʿ), out of 172 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ت-ب-ع?

ت-ب-ع (tbʿ) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اتَّبَعَ (āttabaʿa, 136×), أَتْبَعَ (atbaʿa, 15×), تَبِعَ (tabiʿa, 9×), تابِع (tābiʿ, 3×), and اتِّباع (āttibāʿ, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.