Root

ب-ع-د

bʿd·b-3-d

235 occurrences223 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَعْدbaʿd199—
بَعِيدbaʿīd25—
بُعْدbuʿd7—
بَعُدَتْbaʿudat2—
مُبْعَدmubʿad1—
باعِدْbāʿid1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-ع-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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • بَعُدَتْbaʿudat2
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • باعِدْbāʿid1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُبْعَدmubʿad1

Covers 4 of this root’s 235 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 ب-ع-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-ع-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 179 of 604 pages (30%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (14 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 13 pages — pages 258–270, juzʾ 13–14.

Occurrences · 235 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 ب-ع-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-ع-د (bʿd) occurs 235 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 223 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 ب-ع-د occur?

223 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-ع-د (bʿd), out of 235 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-ع-د?

ب-ع-د (bʿd) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَعْد (baʿd, 199×), بَعِيد (baʿīd, 25×), بُعْد (buʿd, 7×), بَعُدَتْ (baʿudat, 2×), and مُبْعَد (mubʿad, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.