Root

ز-ع-م

zʿm·z-3-m

17 occurrences16 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
زَعَمَzaʿama13—
زَعْمzaʿm2—
زَعِيمzaʿīm2—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ز-ع-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ز-ع-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 15 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 15 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 122 pages — pages 431–552, juzʾ 22–28.

Occurrences · 17 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 ز-ع-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ز-ع-م (zʿm) occurs 17 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 16 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 ز-ع-م occur?

16 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ز-ع-م (zʿm), out of 17 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ز-ع-م?

ز-ع-م (zʿm) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently زَعَمَ (zaʿama, 13×), زَعْم (zaʿm, 2×), and زَعِيم (zaʿīm, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.