Root

م-ث-ل

mthl·m-th-l

169 occurrences148 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَثَلmathal88
مِثْلmithl75
تَماثِيلtamāthīl2
مَثُلَةmathulah1
تَمَثَّلَtamaththala1
مُثْلَىmuthlā1
أَمْثَلamthal1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where م-ث-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-ث-ل 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 120 of 604 pages (20%)

Densest in juzʾ 13 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 30 pages — pages 181210, juzʾ 911.

Occurrences · 169 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 م-ث-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-ث-ل (mthl) occurs 169 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 148 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 م-ث-ل occur?

148 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-ث-ل (mthl), out of 169 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-ث-ل?

م-ث-ل (mthl) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَثَل (mathal, 88×), مِثْل (mithl, 75×), تَماثِيل (tamāthīl, 2×), مَثُلَة (mathulah, 1×), and تَمَثَّلَ (tamaththala, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.