Root

ع-ب-د

ʿbd·3-b-d

275 occurrences251 verses6 forms

Core sense · interpretive

to worship, serve ('ibāda, 'abd).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عَبْدʿabd131—
عَبَدَʿabada122—
عابِدʿābid11—
عِبادَتʿibādat9—
عَبَّدʿabbad1—
عابِدَةʿābidah1—

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

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 Iفَعَلَ133×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عَبَدَʿabada122
    • عابِدʿābid11
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • عَبَّدʿabbad1

Covers 134 of this root’s 275 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 ع-ب-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ب-د 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 186 of 604 pages (31%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (34 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 19 pages — pages 410–428, juzʾ 21–22.

Occurrences · 275 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 ع-ب-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ب-د (ʿbd) occurs 275 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 251 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 ع-ب-د occur?

251 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ب-د (ʿbd), out of 275 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ب-د?

ع-ب-د (ʿbd) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عَبْد (ʿabd, 131×), عَبَدَ (ʿabada, 122×), عابِد (ʿābid, 11×), عِبادَت (ʿibādat, 9×), and عَبَّد (ʿabbad, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ع-ب-د mean?

The core sense of ع-ب-د (ʿbd) is to worship, serve ('ibāda, 'abd). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.