Root

ص-ل-ب

ṣlb·s9-l-b

8 occurrences8 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يُصَلَّبُyuṣallabu4
صُلْبṣulb2
صَلَبُṣalabu2

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ل-ب

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

    • صَلَبُṣalabu2
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ4×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُصَلَّبُyuṣallabu4

Covers 6 of this root’s 8 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-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ل-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 8 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 221 pages — pages 370590, juzʾ 1930.

Occurrences · 8 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-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ل-ب (ṣlb) occurs 8 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 8 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-ب occur?

8 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ل-ب (ṣlb), out of 8 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ل-ب?

ص-ل-ب (ṣlb) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يُصَلَّبُ (yuṣallabu, 4×), صُلْب (ṣulb, 2×), and صَلَبُ (ṣalabu, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.