Root

ع-ب-ث

ʿbth·3-b-th

2 occurrences2 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عَبَثʿabath1—
تَعْبَثُtaʿbathu1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ب-ث 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 2 of 604 pages (0%)

Densest in juzʾ 18 (1 occurrence). The longest stretch without it runs 348 pages — pages 1–348, juzʾ 1–18.

Occurrences · 2 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-ث appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ب-ث (ʿbth) occurs 2 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 2 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-ث occur?

2 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ب-ث (ʿbth), out of 2 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ب-ث?

ع-ب-ث (ʿbth) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عَبَث (ʿabath, 1×) and تَعْبَثُ (taʿbathu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.