Root

ث-و-ب

thwb·th-w-b

28 occurrences23 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ثَوابthawāb13
ثِيابthīāb8
أَثابَathāba3
مَثُوبَةmathūbah2
مَثابَةmathābah1
ثُوِّبَthuwwiba1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ث-و-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

    • مَثُوبَةmathūbah2
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • ثُوِّبَthuwwiba1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَثابَathāba3

Covers 6 of this root’s 28 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 ث-و-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ث-و-ب falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ث-و-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 22 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 4 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 117 pages — pages 396512, juzʾ 2026.

Occurrences · 28 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 ث-و-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ث-و-ب (thwb) occurs 28 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 23 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 ث-و-ب occur?

23 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ث-و-ب (thwb), out of 28 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ث-و-ب?

ث-و-ب (thwb) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ثَواب (thawāb, 13×), ثِياب (thīāb, 8×), أَثابَ (athāba, 3×), مَثُوبَة (mathūbah, 2×), and مَثابَة (mathābah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.