Root

ع-ص-و

ʿṣw·3-s9-w

12 occurrences12 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عَصاʿaṣā10—
عِصِيّʿiṣiyy2—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ص-و 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 10 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 19 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 215 pages — pages 390–604, juzʾ 20–30.

Occurrences · 12 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-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ص-و (ʿṣw) occurs 12 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-و occur?

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

What words come from the root ع-ص-و?

ع-ص-و (ʿṣw) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عَصا (ʿaṣā, 10×) and عِصِيّ (ʿiṣiyy, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.