Root

ر-ب-ب

rbb·r-b-b

980 occurrences871 verses4 forms

Core sense · interpretive

lord, nurturer, master (rabb).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَبّrabb975—
رَبّانِيِّنrabbāniyyin3—
رِبِّيّribbiyy1—
رَبائِبrabāʾib1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ب-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 398 of 604 pages (66%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (63 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 15 pages — pages 192–206, juzʾ 10–11.

Occurrences · 980 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 ر-ب-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ب-ب (rbb) occurs 980 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 871 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 ر-ب-ب occur?

871 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ب-ب (rbb), out of 980 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ب-ب?

ر-ب-ب (rbb) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَبّ (rabb, 975×), رَبّانِيِّن (rabbāniyyin, 3×), رِبِّيّ (ribbiyy, 1×), and رَبائِب (rabāʾib, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ر-ب-ب mean?

The core sense of ر-ب-ب (rbb) is lord, nurturer, master (rabb). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.