Root

ب-ل-غ

blgh·b-l-gh

77 occurrences73 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَلَغَbalagha40
بَلاغbalāgh15
بَلَّغْballagh6
بالِغbāligh6
أَبْلَغُablaghu5
بالِغَةbālighah3
بَلِيغbalīgh1
مَبْلَغmablagh1

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

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 Iفَعَلَ49×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • بَلَغَbalagha40
    • بالِغbāligh6
    • بالِغَةbālighah3
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ6×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • بَلَّغْballagh6
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ5×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَبْلَغُablaghu5

Covers 60 of this root’s 77 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-ل-غ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-ل-غ 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 62 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 8 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 40 pages — pages 188227, juzʾ 1012.

Occurrences · 77 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-ل-غ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-ل-غ (blgh) occurs 77 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 73 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-ل-غ occur?

73 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-ل-غ (blgh), out of 77 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-ل-غ?

ب-ل-غ (blgh) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَلَغَ (balagha, 40×), بَلاغ (balāgh, 15×), بَلَّغْ (ballagh, 6×), بالِغ (bāligh, 6×), and أَبْلَغُ (ablaghu, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.