Root

ل-ع-ب

lʿb·l-3-b

20 occurrences20 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَلْعَبْyalʿab9—
لَعِبlaʿib8—
لاعِبlāʿib3—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ل-ع-ب falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ل-ع-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 20 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 116 pages — pages 1–116, juzʾ 1–6.

Occurrences · 20 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 ل-ع-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ل-ع-ب (lʿb) occurs 20 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 20 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 ل-ع-ب occur?

20 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ل-ع-ب (lʿb), out of 20 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ل-ع-ب?

ل-ع-ب (lʿb) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَلْعَبْ (yalʿab, 9×), لَعِب (laʿib, 8×), and لاعِب (lāʿib, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.