Root

ق-س-ط

qsṭ·q-s-t9

25 occurrences22 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قِسْطqisṭ15
تُقْسِطُtuqsiṭu3
مُقْسِطmuqsiṭ3
أَقْسَطaqsaṭ2
قاسِطqāsiṭ2

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-س-ط

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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قاسِطqāsiṭ2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ6×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • تُقْسِطُtuqsiṭu3
    • مُقْسِطmuqsiṭ3

Covers 8 of this root’s 25 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-س-ط more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ق-س-ط falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-س-ط 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 3 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 97 pages — pages 419515, juzʾ 2126.

Occurrences · 25 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-س-ط appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-س-ط (qsṭ) occurs 25 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 22 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-س-ط occur?

22 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-س-ط (qsṭ), out of 25 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-س-ط?

ق-س-ط (qsṭ) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قِسْط (qisṭ, 15×), تُقْسِطُ (tuqsiṭu, 3×), مُقْسِط (muqsiṭ, 3×), أَقْسَط (aqsaṭ, 2×), and قاسِط (qāsiṭ, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.