Root

س-ب-ح

sbḥ·s-b-7

92 occurrences87 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَبَّحَsabbaḥa42—
سُبْحانsubḥān41—
تَسْبِيحtasbīḥ2—
يَسْبَحُyasbaḥu2—
مُسَبِّحmusabbiḥ2—
سَبْحsabḥ2—
سابِحَةsābiḥah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-ب-ح

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَسْبَحُyasbaḥu2
    • سابِحَةsābiḥah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ46×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • سَبَّحَsabbaḥa42
    • تَسْبِيحtasbīḥ2
    • مُسَبِّحmusabbiḥ2

Covers 49 of this root’s 92 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 س-ب-ح more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where س-ب-ح falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ب-ح 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 72 of 604 pages (12%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 36 pages — pages 19–54, juzʾ 1–3.

Occurrences · 92 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 س-ب-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ب-ح (sbḥ) occurs 92 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 87 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 س-ب-ح occur?

87 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ب-ح (sbḥ), out of 92 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ب-ح?

س-ب-ح (sbḥ) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَبَّحَ (sabbaḥa, 42×), سُبْحان (subḥān, 41×), تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ, 2×), يَسْبَحُ (yasbaḥu, 2×), and مُسَبِّح (musabbiḥ, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.