Root

و-ب-ل

wbl·w-b-l

8 occurrences7 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَبالwabāl4—
وابِلwābil3—
وَبِيلwabīl1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with و-ب-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ب-ل 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 7 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 423 pages — pages 124–546, juzʾ 7–28.

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 و-ب-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ب-ل (wbl) occurs 8 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 7 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 و-ب-ل occur?

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

What words come from the root و-ب-ل?

و-ب-ل (wbl) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَبال (wabāl, 4×), وابِل (wābil, 3×), and وَبِيل (wabīl, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.