Root

غ-ي-ب

ghyb·gh-y-b

60 occurrences59 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
غَيْبghayb49—
غُيُوبghuyūb4—
غائِبghāʾib3—
غَيابَتghayābat2—
غائِبَةghāʾibah1—
يَغْتَبyaghtab1—

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

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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • غائِبghāʾib3
    • غائِبَةghāʾibah1
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • يَغْتَبyaghtab1

Covers 5 of this root’s 60 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 غ-ي-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times غ-ي-ب 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 56 of 604 pages (9%)

Densest in juzʾ 22 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 53 pages — pages 464–516, juzʾ 24–26.

Occurrences · 60 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 غ-ي-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root غ-ي-ب (ghyb) occurs 60 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 59 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 غ-ي-ب occur?

59 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from غ-ي-ب (ghyb), out of 60 total occurrences.

What words come from the root غ-ي-ب?

غ-ي-ب (ghyb) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently غَيْب (ghayb, 49×), غُيُوب (ghuyūb, 4×), غائِب (ghāʾib, 3×), غَيابَت (ghayābat, 2×), and غائِبَة (ghāʾibah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.