Root

ص-ب-ح

ṣbḥ·s9-b-7

45 occurrences43 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَصْبَحَaṣbaḥa28—
صُبْحṣubḥ5—
مُصْبِحmuṣbiḥ5—
مِصْباحmiṣbāḥ4—
إِصْباحiṣbāḥ1—
صَباحṣabāḥ1—
صَبَّحَṣabbaḥa1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-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 IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • صَبَّحَṣabbaḥa1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ34×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَصْبَحَaṣbaḥa28
    • مُصْبِحmuṣbiḥ5
    • إِصْباحiṣbāḥ1

Covers 35 of this root’s 45 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 ص-ب-ح more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-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 36 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 29 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 66 pages — pages 163–228, juzʾ 9–12.

Occurrences · 45 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 ص-ب-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ب-ح (ṣbḥ) occurs 45 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 43 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 ص-ب-ح occur?

43 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ب-ح (ṣbḥ), out of 45 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ب-ح?

ص-ب-ح (ṣbḥ) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَصْبَحَ (aṣbaḥa, 28×), صُبْح (ṣubḥ, 5×), مُصْبِح (muṣbiḥ, 5×), مِصْباح (miṣbāḥ, 4×), and إِصْباح (iṣbāḥ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.