Root

ب-د-ل

bdl·b-d-l

44 occurrences40 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَدَّلَbaddala23—
تَبْدِيلtabdīl7—
يَسْتَبْدِلْyastabdil3—
يَتَبَدَّلِyatabaddali3—
مُبَدِّلmubaddil3—
يُبْدِلَyubdila3—
اسْتِبْدالāstibdāl1—
بَدَلbadal1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-د-ل

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 IIفَعَّلَ33×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • بَدَّلَbaddala23
    • تَبْدِيلtabdīl7
    • مُبَدِّلmubaddil3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُبْدِلَyubdila3
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ3×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَبَدَّلِyatabaddali3
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ4×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَبْدِلْyastabdil3
    • اسْتِبْدالāstibdāl1

Covers 43 of this root’s 44 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-د-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-د-ل 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 39 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 22 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 54 pages — pages 303–356, juzʾ 16–18.

Occurrences · 44 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-د-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-د-ل (bdl) occurs 44 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 40 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-د-ل occur?

40 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-د-ل (bdl), out of 44 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-د-ل?

ب-د-ل (bdl) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَدَّلَ (baddala, 23×), تَبْدِيل (tabdīl, 7×), يَسْتَبْدِلْ (yastabdil, 3×), يَتَبَدَّلِ (yatabaddali, 3×), and مُبَدِّل (mubaddil, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.