Root

خ-ط-ب

khṭb·kh-t9-b

12 occurrences12 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
خَطْبkhaṭb5—
خاطَبَkhāṭaba3—
خِطابkhiṭāb3—
خِطْبَةkhiṭbah1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where خ-ط-ب falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ط-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 11 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 186 pages — pages 39–224, juzʾ 2–12.

Occurrences · 12 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 خ-ط-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-ط-ب (khṭb) occurs 12 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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 خ-ط-ب occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-ط-ب (khṭb), out of 12 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-ط-ب?

خ-ط-ب (khṭb) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently خَطْب (khaṭb, 5×), خاطَبَ (khāṭaba, 3×), خِطاب (khiṭāb, 3×), and خِطْبَة (khiṭbah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.