Root

ب-و-أ

bw·b-w-2

17 occurrences16 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
باءَbāʾa6
بَوَّأَbawwaʾa6
يَتَبَوَّأُyatabawwaʾu4
مُبَوَّأmubawwa1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-و-أ

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 Iفَعَلَ6×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • باءَbāʾa6
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ7×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • بَوَّأَbawwaʾa6
    • مُبَوَّأmubawwa1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ4×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَبَوَّأُyatabawwaʾu4

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ب-و-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-و-أ 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 16 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 4 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 79 pages — pages 467545, juzʾ 2428.

Occurrences · 17 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-و-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-و-أ (bw) occurs 17 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 16 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-و-أ occur?

16 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-و-أ (bw), out of 17 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-و-أ?

ب-و-أ (bw) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently باءَ (bāʾa, 6×), بَوَّأَ (bawwaʾa, 6×), يَتَبَوَّأُ (yatabawwaʾu, 4×), and مُبَوَّأ (mubawwa, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.