Root

ب-ش-ر

bshr·b-sh-r

123 occurrences119 verses11 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بُشِّرَbushshira38—
بَشَرbashar37—
بُشْرَىbushrā15—
بَشِيرbashīr9—
مُبَشِّرmubashshir9—
يَسْتَبْشِرُyastabshiru7—
بُشْرbushr3—
باشِرُbāshiru2—
مُبَشِّرَةmubashshirah1—
أَبْشِرُabshiru1—
مُسْتَبْشِرَةmustabshirah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-ش-ر

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 IIفَعَّلَ47×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • بُشِّرَbushshira38
    • مُبَشِّرmubashshir9
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ2×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • باشِرُbāshiru2
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَبْشِرُabshiru1
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ8×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَبْشِرُyastabshiru7
    • مُسْتَبْشِرَةmustabshirah1

Covers 58 of this root’s 123 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-ش-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ب-ش-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-ش-ر 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 98 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 14 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 27 pages — pages 73–99, juzʾ 4–5.

Occurrences · 123 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-ش-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-ش-ر (bshr) occurs 123 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 119 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-ش-ر occur?

119 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-ش-ر (bshr), out of 123 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-ش-ر?

ب-ش-ر (bshr) yields 11 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بُشِّرَ (bushshira, 38×), بَشَر (bashar, 37×), بُشْرَى (bushrā, 15×), بَشِير (bashīr, 9×), and مُبَشِّر (mubashshir, 9×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.