Root

ك-ب-ر

kbr·k-b-r

161 occurrences153 verses18 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اسْتَكْبَرَāstakbara40—
كَبِيرkabīr40—
أَكْبَرakbar24—
كَبُرَkabura8—
كَبِيرَةkabīrah7—
مُتَكَبِّرmutakabbir7—
كُبْرَىkubrā7—
كِبَرkibar6—
مُسْتَكْبِرmustakbir6—
كَبِّرْkabbir4—
يَتَكَبَّرُyatakabbaru2—
كِبْرِياءkibrīā2—
كِبْرkibr2—
اسْتِكْبارāstikbār2—
أَكْبَرْakbar1—
تَكْبِيرtakbīr1—
كُبَراءkubarā1—
كُبّارkubbār1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ب-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 Iفَعَلَ8×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • كَبُرَkabura8
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ5×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • كَبِّرْkabbir4
    • تَكْبِيرtakbīr1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَكْبَرْakbar1
  4. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ9×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • مُتَكَبِّرmutakabbir7
    • يَتَكَبَّرُyatakabbaru2
  5. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ48×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَكْبَرَāstakbara40
    • مُسْتَكْبِرmustakbir6
    • اسْتِكْبارāstikbār2

Covers 71 of this root’s 161 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 ك-ب-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ب-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 132 of 604 pages (22%)

Densest in juzʾ 24 (16 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 21 pages — pages 505–525, juzʾ 26–27.

Occurrences · 161 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 ك-ب-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ب-ر (kbr) occurs 161 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 153 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 ك-ب-ر occur?

153 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ب-ر (kbr), out of 161 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ب-ر?

ك-ب-ر (kbr) yields 18 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اسْتَكْبَرَ (āstakbara, 40×), كَبِير (kabīr, 40×), أَكْبَر (akbar, 24×), كَبُرَ (kabura, 8×), and كَبِيرَة (kabīrah, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.