Root

ع-ق-ب

ʿqb·3-q-b

80 occurrences74 verses11 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عاقِبَةʿāqibah32—
عِقابʿiqāb20—
عَقِبʿaqib8—
عُقْبَىʿuqbā6—
عاقَبَʿāqaba6—
يُعَقِّبْyuʿaqqib2—
عَقَبَةʿaqabah2—
أَعْقَبَaʿqaba1—
مُعَقِّبَةmuʿaqqibah1—
مُعَقِّبmuʿaqqib1—
عُقْبʿuqb1—

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

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 IIفَعَّلَ4×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُعَقِّبْyuʿaqqib2
    • مُعَقِّبَةmuʿaqqibah1
    • مُعَقِّبmuʿaqqib1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ6×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • عاقَبَʿāqaba6
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَعْقَبَaʿqaba1

Covers 11 of this root’s 80 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-ق-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ق-ب 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 61 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 13 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 38 pages — pages 508–545, juzʾ 26–28.

Occurrences · 80 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-ق-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ق-ب (ʿqb) occurs 80 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 74 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-ق-ب occur?

74 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ق-ب (ʿqb), out of 80 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ق-ب?

ع-ق-ب (ʿqb) yields 11 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عاقِبَة (ʿāqibah, 32×), عِقاب (ʿiqāb, 20×), عَقِب (ʿaqib, 8×), عُقْبَى (ʿuqbā, 6×), and عاقَبَ (ʿāqaba, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.