Root

ق-ر-ب

qrb·q-r-b

96 occurrences91 verses11 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَرِيبqarīb26—
أَقْرَبaqrab19—
قُرْبَىqurbā16—
يَقْرَبُyaqrabu11—
مُقَرَّبmuqarrab8—
قَرَّبَqarraba5—
اقْتَرَبَāqtaraba5—
قُرْبانqurbān3—
قُرُبَةqurubah1—
قُرْبَةqurbah1—
مَقْرَبَةmaqrabah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-ر-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 Iفَعَلَ11×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَقْرَبُyaqrabu11
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ13×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُقَرَّبmuqarrab8
    • قَرَّبَqarraba5
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ5×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اقْتَرَبَāqtaraba5

Covers 29 of this root’s 96 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-ر-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-ر-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 82 of 604 pages (14%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 31 pages — pages 377–407, juzʾ 19–21.

Occurrences · 96 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-ر-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-ر-ب (qrb) occurs 96 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 91 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-ر-ب occur?

91 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-ر-ب (qrb), out of 96 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-ر-ب?

ق-ر-ب (qrb) yields 11 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَرِيب (qarīb, 26×), أَقْرَب (aqrab, 19×), قُرْبَى (qurbā, 16×), يَقْرَبُ (yaqrabu, 11×), and مُقَرَّب (muqarrab, 8×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.