Root

ص-ل-ح

ṣlḥ·s9-l-7

180 occurrences170 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
صالِحṣāliḥ74—
صالِحَةṣāliḥah62—
أَصْلَحَaṣlaḥa28—
إِصْلاحiṣlāḥ7—
مُصْلِحmuṣliḥ5—
صُلْحṣulḥ2—
صَلَحَṣalaḥa2—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ل-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 Iفَعَلَ129×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • صالِحṣāliḥ65
    • صالِحَةṣāliḥah62
    • صَلَحَṣalaḥa2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ40×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَصْلَحَaṣlaḥa28
    • إِصْلاحiṣlāḥ7
    • مُصْلِحmuṣliḥ5

Covers 169 of this root’s 180 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-ل-ح more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ل-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 148 of 604 pages (25%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 38 pages — pages 517–554, juzʾ 26–28.

Occurrences · 180 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-ل-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ل-ح (ṣlḥ) occurs 180 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 170 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-ل-ح occur?

170 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ل-ح (ṣlḥ), out of 180 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ل-ح?

ص-ل-ح (ṣlḥ) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently صالِح (ṣāliḥ, 74×), صالِحَة (ṣāliḥah, 62×), أَصْلَحَ (aṣlaḥa, 28×), إِصْلاح (iṣlāḥ, 7×), and مُصْلِح (muṣliḥ, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.