Root

أ-ث-م

thm·2-th-m

48 occurrences42 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
إِثْمithm35
أَثِيمathīm7
آثِمāthim3
تَأْثِيمtaʾthīm2
أَثامathām1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-ث-م

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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • آثِمāthim3
    • أَثامathām1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تَأْثِيمtaʾthīm2

Covers 6 of this root’s 48 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 أ-ث-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-ث-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-ث-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 35 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 196 pages — pages 155350, juzʾ 818.

Occurrences · 48 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 أ-ث-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ث-م (thm) occurs 48 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 42 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 أ-ث-م occur?

42 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ث-م (thm), out of 48 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ث-م?

أ-ث-م (thm) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently إِثْم (ithm, 35×), أَثِيم (athīm, 7×), آثِم (āthim, 3×), تَأْثِيم (taʾthīm, 2×), and أَثام (athām, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.