Root

ق-ل-ب

qlb·q-l-b

168 occurrences155 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَلْبqalb132—
انقَلَبَānqalaba17—
قَلَّبُqallabu6—
تَقَلُّبtaqallub5—
مُنقَلِبmunqalib3—
مُنقَلَبmunqalab2—
تَتَقَلَّبُtataqallabu1—
تُقْلَبُtuqlabu1—
مُتَقَلَّبmutaqallab1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-ل-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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • تُقْلَبُtuqlabu1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ6×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • قَلَّبُqallabu6
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ7×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَقَلُّبtaqallub5
    • تَتَقَلَّبُtataqallabu1
    • مُتَقَلَّبmutaqallab1
  4. Form VIIاِنْفَعَلَ22×

    often passive or resultative · interpretive

    • انقَلَبَānqalaba17
    • مُنقَلِبmunqalib3
    • مُنقَلَبmunqalab2

Covers 36 of this root’s 168 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 ق-ل-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-ل-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 125 of 604 pages (21%)

Densest in juzʾ 26 (16 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 23 pages — pages 219–241, juzʾ 11–12.

Occurrences · 168 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 ق-ل-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-ل-ب (qlb) occurs 168 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 155 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 ق-ل-ب occur?

155 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-ل-ب (qlb), out of 168 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-ل-ب?

ق-ل-ب (qlb) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَلْب (qalb, 132×), انقَلَبَ (ānqalaba, 17×), قَلَّبُ (qallabu, 6×), تَقَلُّب (taqallub, 5×), and مُنقَلِب (munqalib, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.