Root

ع-ص-م

ʿṣm·3-s9-m

13 occurrences12 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اعْتَصَمُāʿtaṣamu5
يَعْصِمُyaʿṣimu3
عاصِمʿāṣim3
اسْتَعْصَمَāstaʿṣama1
عِصَمʿiṣam1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ص-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 Iفَعَلَ6×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَعْصِمُyaʿṣimu3
    • عاصِمʿāṣim3
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ5×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اعْتَصَمُāʿtaṣamu5
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَعْصَمَāstaʿṣama1

Covers 12 of this root’s 13 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-ص-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ص-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 11 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 101 pages — pages 240340, juzʾ 1217.

Occurrences · 13 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-ص-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ص-م (ʿṣm) occurs 13 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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-ص-م occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ص-م (ʿṣm), out of 13 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ص-م?

ع-ص-م (ʿṣm) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اعْتَصَمُ (āʿtaṣamu, 5×), يَعْصِمُ (yaʿṣimu, 3×), عاصِم (ʿāṣim, 3×), اسْتَعْصَمَ (āstaʿṣama, 1×), and عِصَم (ʿiṣam, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.